Senior Platform Engineer - TS/SCI

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About the role

Parsons is seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our innovative team. In this role, you will design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient platform solutions across enterprise data centers, hybrid-cloud environments, and tactically deployed or disconnected settings. You will leverage your expertise in container orchestration, Linux infrastructure, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps, and cloud-native technologies to support mission-critical operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, secure, and maintain enterprise platform infrastructure.
• Engineer and administer OpenShift and Kubernetes environments supporting mission applications and services.
• Develop automated deployment, configuration, sustainment, and remediation capabilities using Ansible and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deploy and maintain RHEL-based infrastructure.
• Develop standardized platform architectures for consistent deployment across enterprise, cloud, edge, and disconnected environments.
• Support DevSecOps pipelines and automated software/platform delivery processes.
• Integrate platform infrastructure with networking, identity, cybersecurity, logging, monitoring, storage, and application services.
• Develop and maintain platform configuration baselines and reusable automation.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, container, Linux, networking, and automation issues.
• Support platform modernization and migration activities.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native, automation, AI/ML, and infrastructure technologies for mission applicability.
• Create technical architecture documentation, diagrams, deployment procedures, configuration documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in technical demonstrations, prototypes, proofs of concept, integration events, and operational deployments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure platform implementations meet DoD security and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering and operations personnel.
• Support mission systems throughout development, integration, testing, deployment, and operational sustainment.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field and 10+ years of related experience (additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• Experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale infrastructure or platform solutions.
• Hands-on experience administering and engineering OpenShift and/or Kubernetes environments.
• Experience implementing automation using Ansible or comparable configuration-management technologies.
• Experience supporting Linux-based enterprise infrastructure, preferably RHEL.
• Experience implementing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment methodologies.
• Experience supporting hybrid-cloud, enterprise data center, and/or edge infrastructure.
• Experience integrating platform technologies with networking, cybersecurity, application, and enterprise infrastructure components.
• Experience designing secure, resilient infrastructure for mission-critical workloads.
• Experience working with technical and operational stakeholders to translate mission requirements into platform architectures and technical solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for platform, infrastructure, networking, container, and automation issues.

Skills

Desired Skills:

• Red Hat Certifications.
• Experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, USSOCOM, or other Federal Government environments.
• Experience deploying platforms into tactically deployed, disconnected, intermittent, limited-bandwidth (DIL), or air-gapped environments.
• Red Hat OpenStack experience.
• OpenShift Virtualization experience.
• Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) experience.
• Experience with automated infrastructure remediation and event-driven automation.
• Experience integrating telemetry and monitoring platforms with automated remediation workflows.
• Experience with Kafka, Splunk, or comparable enterprise data and observability technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available containerized platforms.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience with MLOps and model-serving infrastructure.
• Experience deploying self-hosted large language models (LLMs).
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model training, fine-tuning, and GPU-enabled infrastructure.
• Experience developing technical solutions in accordance with DoD cybersecurity and compliance requirements.

Pay

Salary Range: $176,900.00 - $332,400.00

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible work schedules and holidays.