Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Aurora, CO.
Required Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with CI Poly
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 comprehensive cloud-based platform. Platform engineers, with their wide-ranging 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 is for providing the design, development, implementation, and integration of a compute/network/storage infrastructure, as well as support modernizing the program platform’s over-arching design through new emerging technologies and use of DevOps/DevSecOps tools and automation in-order to streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and accelerate the release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments on 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 cloud-based 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 other agile development teams to design and implement robust platform solutions.
- Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
- Provide operational support for the platform.
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 designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker.
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go).
Desired Skills:
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
- Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems.
- Must meet DoD 8570 IAT level II requirements (Security + CE or equivalent).
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and Chef.
- Experience with RedHat Linux.
- Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
- Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with computers, networks, storage, and virtualization.
- Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
- Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
Recruiter: Lerin Merry
ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.
