Sr. Platform Engineer
Location: Richardson, TX.
Required Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with CI Poly
Since 1999, ITEC has been a powerhouse in supporting mission-critical programs for the DoD and Intelligence community, building a solid reputation along the way. At ITEC, we don’t just care for our employees—we champion them with competitive salaries, an outstanding employee care program, and a benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, and a 401k.
U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation.
Job Description:
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform. Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities.
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure.
- Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments.
- Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
- Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions.
- Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
- Provide operational support for the platform.
- Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher.
- Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.
Required Skills:
- Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5 years of related work experience.
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
- Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
- Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher.
Desired Skills:
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
- Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures.
- Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
- Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization.
- Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++).
- Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days.
Recruiter: Karen Knight
ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.
