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Platform Operations Engineer

Strategic Resilience Group

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Job Description

Position Responsibilities

  • Manage production infrastructure, operational environments, cloud resources, networking components, and supporting platform services.
  • Deploy, configure, maintain, and monitor enterprise applications and mission-supporting services.
  • Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, reliability, and operational health.
  • Implement and maintain infrastructure security controls, access controls, cybersecurity best practices, and operational safeguards.
  • Support cybersecurity, accreditation, compliance, Risk Management Framework, and governance activities.
  • Manage cloud resources, networking components, environment configurations, storage services, identity services, and platform dependencies.
  • Support deployment automation, DevSecOps processes, infrastructure-as-code practices, and release management activities.
  • Coordinate software releases, production rollouts, and operational transitions of new capabilities from the Alpha Development Team.
  • Support transition of new capabilities from development, test, or staging environments into production, mission, or classified environments.
  • Implement and maintain platform capabilities that support data governance, metadata management, lineage tracking, provenance, auditing, and compliance monitoring.
  • Ensure infrastructure and operational environments support auditable, secure, and traceable data flows across mission systems, data services, analytical platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Support governance controls related to data storage, retention, access management, lifecycle management, backup, recovery, and archival requirements.
  • Develop and maintain backup, recovery, continuity, resilience, and disaster recovery procedures.
  • Maintain configuration management documentation, system inventories, operational baselines, metadata repositories, and environment documentation.
  • Identify opportunities to improve scalability, reliability, automation, security, compliance, cost efficiency, and operational performance.
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure, platform, deployment, network, security, and environment-related issues.
  • Communicate technical status, risks, dependencies, recommendations, and operational impacts to program leadership, technical teams, and client stakeholders.


Required Qualifications

  • U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance and Top Secret eligibility.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
  • Experience administering enterprise infrastructure, cloud-based environments, hybrid environments, or mission-critical operational platforms.
  • Strong understanding of networking, system administration, cybersecurity, identity and access management, and infrastructure management principles.
  • Experience supporting operational deployments, production systems, enterprise platforms, or mission-critical environments.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or similar technologies.
  • Experience implementing security controls, infrastructure management practices, operational baselines, and compliance-supporting processes.
  • Understanding of data governance, data lineage, data provenance, metadata management, data lifecycle management, and data protection concepts.
  • Ability to support platform services and infrastructure that enable secure, auditable, and traceable data operations.
  • Strong ability to communicate in writing and orally with teammates, leadership, technical staff, and clients.
  • Ability to work effectively with mission systems engineers, software developers, cybersecurity personnel, support teams, and the Alpha Development Team.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
  • Experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, federal government, or mission-focused programs.
  • Familiarity with Risk Management Framework processes, accreditation activities, cybersecurity compliance, and secure system operations.
  • Experience with DevSecOps methodologies, automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies.
  • Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical, or classified operational environments.
  • Experience supporting enterprise data governance platforms, metadata repositories, data catalogs, data management tools, or audit logging solutions.
  • Familiarity with DoD Data Strategy, Data Fabric, Data Mesh, Zero Trust, enterprise data architecture, or responsible AI infrastructure concepts.
  • Experience supporting AI-enabled, analytics, decision-support, or data-intensive operational platforms.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, auditing, backup, and recovery tools in secure environments.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, OR PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • Certified Cloud Security Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Docker Certified Associate
  • Certified Data Management Professional
  • DAMA Data Governance and Stewardship Certification
  • DevSecOps Foundation Certification
  • ITIL Foundation Certification
  • Relevant DoD 8140 or DoD 8570 baseline certification, as applicable to contract requirements
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Strategic Resilience Group is a privately held business, founded in 2015, driven with the purpose of helping clients execute strategies in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. We are a team of proven business leaders, veterans, and experienced engineers working to create enduring solutions for our client's most influential and prominent problems. We integrate proven practices from private industry, the public sector, and national defense, using these resources to shape and guide the actions necessary to be taken for each specific client.

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