Senior Platform Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking a cleared (TS/SCI) Senior Platform Engineer in support of NAVWAR's Naval Operational Architecture (NOA) Program in San Diego, CA.

As a Platform Engineer supporting Naval Operational Architecture, you will play a critical role in operationalizing AI for next-generation naval platforms and systems. You'll focus on building and managing secure, scalable cloud-based environments to support advanced analytics, AI/ML workloads, and autonomous systems. This position involves hands-on engineering with cutting-edge technologies, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and direct support of mission-critical DoD capabilities. Your work will directly enhance the warfighter's ability to execute distributed maritime operations and maintain tactical superiority. This is a recently awarded contract, funded for five years.

Work is performed on site in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure within AWS GovCloud environments
• Configure and manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation. Support secure data flow across multiple systems, ensuring compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and STIG requirements
• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to streamline deployment pipelines and container management
• Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues within cloud, networking, and containerized environments
• Partner with AI/ML engineers and software developers to deploy and integrate advanced analytics platforms and tools
• Maintain detailed technical documentation to support system operations and compliance
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and team members

Qualifications

Education and Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related STEM field and nine (9) or Master's degree and seven (7)
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Security+ strongly preferred

Citizenship and Clearance Requirements:

• US Citizenship
• Active TS SCI security clearance

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 9 years' experience working as a cloud engineer, cloud administrator, cloud architecture, DevOps engineer, IT Specialist, platform engineer, site reliability engineer, release engineer, systems administrator, systems engineer, or similar role
• AWS Gov Cloud
  • Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Cloud based networking
  • VPCs, Subnets, Routing Tables, Security Groups, Route 53
  • RHEL Linux Administration
  • Relational Database Service - RDS
  • PostGres
  • Secure Storage Service - S3
  • Elastic Search
• IaC
  • Extensive Ansible Scripting experience
  • IaC Tooling such as Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Cyber
  • Linux STIG remediation experience
• DevSecOps
  • Docker basics
  • Ability to troubleshoot a running container

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Openshift or Kubernetes
• Airflow
• Kafca
• RabbitMQ
• Apache
• Kibana
• Adapting open-source product to work with GovCloud
  • Domino Data Labs
  • Tobias
  • Fiddler

Please view our Program page for more information and to view all open positions available: https://jobs.saic.com/pages/NOA .

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.