Senior Platform Engineer (AWS & Kubernetes) – Government Cloud Security (DoD)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Platform Engineer based in United States.

This role focuses on designing, deploying, and operating secure cloud-native platforms supporting mission-critical government applications.

You will engineer AWS-based Kubernetes environments and ensure they remain reliable, scalable, secure, and supportable.

The position combines infrastructure automation, container orchestration, DevSecOps, cybersecurity compliance, observability, and technical troubleshooting.

You will translate application and mission requirements into repeatable platform services while collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, network, and mission teams.

The role also involves application onboarding, release management, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and continuous service improvement.

Strong documentation and communication skills are essential for communicating technical risks, platform health, and recommended actions to diverse stakeholders.

This is a fully remote U.S. opportunity supporting Department of Defense operations and requires an active Secret security clearance.

Accountabilities

You will own the technical operation and continuous improvement of secure AWS and Kubernetes platform capabilities, ensuring applications can be deployed and sustained effectively within a government environment.

• Design, deploy, configure, operate, and sustain AWS-based platform services supporting mission-critical applications and workloads.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters and supporting services, including nodes, namespaces, role-based access control, ingress, service discovery, storage, secrets, network policies, autoscaling, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain repeatable infrastructure and platform configurations using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or approved equivalent technologies.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, container registries, artifact repositories, automated testing, and deployment controls.
• Onboard, configure, deploy, and sustain containerized applications across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Integrate platform services with government network services, identity and access management, public key infrastructure, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, endpoint security, and other enterprise services.
• Maintain secure platform configurations aligned with approved security baselines, DISA STIGs, Risk Management Framework requirements, and Authority to Operate conditions.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, capacity, security posture, and application health using AWS-native and approved observability tools.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Linux, containers, Kubernetes, AWS services, networking, DNS, certificates, encryption, load balancing, storage, compute, identity, and application dependencies.
• Perform patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration management, backup, recovery, and controlled platform upgrades while minimizing operational disruption.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, software, data, systems engineering, and mission teams to resolve technical dependencies and deliver integrated capabilities.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation, configuration standards, operating procedures, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, deployment instructions, and knowledge articles.
• Participate in technical interchange meetings, architecture reviews, release planning, change control, incident response, root-cause analysis, and after-action reviews.
• Provide clear reporting on platform health, technical risks, security findings, maintenance activities, dependencies, and recommended actions.

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• Participate in scheduled maintenance and time-sensitive incident response outside normal business hours when mission requirements demand it.
  
  

Requirements

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in cloud and platform engineering, strong Kubernetes and AWS expertise, and a solid understanding of secure government technology environments.

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Minimum of 5 years of directly relevant experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, systems engineering, Linux administration, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on experience operating, integrating, or sustaining systems connected to the DODIN, including familiarity with Department of Defense network, security, configuration, and operational requirements.
• Current Department of Defense 8570-compliant certification appropriate to the assigned cybersecurity or information assurance functions.
• Demonstrated experience deploying, administering, troubleshooting, and upgrading Kubernetes environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and services covering compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and automation.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience, including operating system, processes, packages, file systems, permissions, networking, and performance.
• Experience building, securing, deploying, and operating containers using Docker, OCI-compatible technologies, or equivalent tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration automation, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and repeatable deployment practices.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, TLS, certificates, and network segmentation.
• Working knowledge of Department of Defense cybersecurity and authorization practices, including RMF, STIGs, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and ATO requirements.
• Ability to independently diagnose complex technical problems, coordinate across technical teams, document findings, and drive issues through resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues, risks, and recommendations to engineering, cybersecurity, program, and mission stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment while protecting government information and maintaining reliable connectivity.
• Ability to travel periodically to government or designated work locations for integration, testing, maintenance, or mission support.
• Experience with Amazon EKS in AWS GovCloud or another Department of Defense-authorized cloud environment preferred.
• Experience supporting DoD Impact Level 4, 5, or 6 environments preferred.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, or comparable platform and GitOps tools preferred.
• Experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Elastic, Fluent Bit, or similar observability platforms preferred.
• Experience with container security, image scanning, software supply-chain controls, SBOMs, Iron Bank images, or hardened container baselines preferred.

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• Experience with CAC authentication, DoD PKI, identity providers, RBAC, ABAC, or Zero Trust architectures preferred.
• Experience with service mesh, secrets management, policy as code, automated compliance, high availability, disaster recovery, or multi-account AWS architectures preferred.
• AWS, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Linux, cybersecurity, or related professional certification preferred.
• Prior experience supporting defense, military, national security, or other government mission customers preferred.
• U.S. citizenship is required for security clearance eligibility.
  
  

Benefits

• Target salary range of $135,000–$230,000.
• Fully remote position within the continental United States.
• Opportunity to work on mission-critical cloud-native platforms supporting government operations.
• Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, GitOps, infrastructure as code, cybersecurity, and modern observability technologies.
• Opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, cybersecurity, network, software, data, and mission teams.
• Professional development through hands-on work with secure cloud platforms and government technology environments.
• Periodic travel may be required for integration, testing, maintenance, or mission support.
• Salary is determined by factors including location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, education, experience, skills, and security clearance.
  
  

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