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Senior Platform Engineer

DCI Solutions

Sep 26
Top Secret/SCI
Early Career (2+ yrs experience)
$150,000 and above
25%
CI Polygraph
Engineering - Systems
McLean, VA (On/Off-Site)

Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Mclean, Virginia

Job Description:
• Serve as a Senior Platform Engineer
• Design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure.
• Support data integration efforts
• Build, maintain, and optimize underlying infrastructure to support Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

Qualifications:
• Cluster Management: Extensive experience with Kubernetes clusters to include:
o Designing, deploying, securing, maintaining
o Upgrading highly available and scalable (e.g., EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift, or self-managed)
o Including the control plane components, worker nodes, and their interactions
• Containerization & Orchestration: Proficient with Docker and containerization best practices
• Networking: Strong understanding of Kubernetes networking concepts
• Security: Expertise in securing Kubernetes environments and network security
• Performance & Optimization: Optimize resources and implement best practices for cluster tuning
• CI/CD Tooling: Hands-on experience with popular CI/CD platforms like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
• Experience with Helm charts and customize for Kubernetes application packaging and deployment.
• Automation Scripting: Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• Linux/Unix: Background in Linux, including networking, file systems, and process management
• Relevant certifications such as:
o CKA, CKAD, CKS, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
Additional Qualifications:
• Experience with Kubernetes operators, custom resource definitions (CRDs)
• Building internal developer platforms (IDPs)
• Travel up to 20% of the time, as required, to perform on-site installations, maintenance
• Have current IAM Level II to satisfy DOD 8570 IAT requirements

Active DoD TS/SCI with a Counterintelligence Polygraph (CIP) Clearance
Job Type: Full-time
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About Us
DCI Solutions is a Small Business based in Maryand that focuses on providing engineering and program management consulting services to numerous government agencies. Our services are tailored to the needs of our specific government clients and their missions. DCI has extensive technical domain knowledge in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), command and control (C2), healthcare systems, high performance computing, and cyber warfare. DCI also provides its clients with critical program acquisition and planning support to enable them to operate effectively and efficiently in an austere funding environment. Our corporate structure is flat and all DCI employees are billable to customers by design. This gives us the ability to punch far above our weight in terms of having a direct impact on our customers'​ success. Our customers prefer us because we are LEAN, RESPONSIVE, and ENGAGED.

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