Staff Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Arcitect and maintain scalable runtime production environments across cloud-native and containerized systems, including transforming applications into Kubernetes-friendly formats for bare-metal deployment
• Own the technical roadmap for the platform vertical, identifying gaps, planning initiatives, and aligning engineering effort to mission objectives
• Provide mentorship to engineers across the team, fostering professional development and raising the technical bar
• Identify technical overlap across projects and guide teams on leveraging each other for efficient delivery
• Work closely with Mission Managers, providing insights on engineering competency, capacity, velocity, and alignment with mission objectives
• Collaborate with product teams, providing feedback on product fit and contributing to product direction based on production usage
• Work with customers to define technical roadmaps that align to mission objectives
• Evaluate and select optimal methods for solving complex business problems, assessing new products and their potential impact on mission objectives
• Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, and operational tooling
• Travel requirements: 25% travel

Required Qualifications

• US citizenship and eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance
• Expertise in solving highly technical problems that span multiple knowledge domains
• Deep knowledge in 1-2 key technologies such as pipelines, GitOps, Kubernetes, or Go
• Expert with YAML
• Proficient with security automation and familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Cloud Security
• Proficient in architecture security design, monitoring, and performance instrumentation in complex enterprise environments
• Experience with continuous delivery, distributed architectures, everything-as-code, containerization, and cloud services
• Proficient in identifying and articulating gaps in existing processes and iterating toward better ways of working
• Prowed problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams
• Experience working on a team following an Agile framework in a remote environment

Preferred Qualifications

• DoD 8570 IAT II certification or ability to obtain
• Experience in Department of Defense work, specifically on a production ATO system
• Experience with Big Bang, Iron Bank, and/or C-ATO processes
• Expert in DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD theory and implementation