Sr. Platform Engineer w/ TS/SCI CI Poly

Company: The Computer Merchant, LTD.
Location: Richardson
Posted on: April 25, 2025

Job Description:

JOB TITLE: Platform Engineer

Make your application after reading the following skill and qualification requirements for this position.
JOB LOCATION: Richardson, Texas (On-Site)
DURATION: Initial 1-Year Contract, potential for extension(s) and/or conversion to FTE
WAGE RANGE: 80-85/hr
JOB NUMBER: 14817796

OVERVIEW:

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.

What You Will DoSupport 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.

Qualifications You Must HaveTypically 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
Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI / CI Poly security clearance is required on day 1. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications We PreferExperience 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


Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities

* While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions.

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