Job Requirements
Remote
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$175,000 - $185,000
Job Description
For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space.
Karthik Consulting is seeking Senior Platform Engineer with the below skillset.
Senior Platform Engineer
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: Remote within United States
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
Salary: $185000 per year
Program Description
SPA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as a trusted technical partner to mission teams, helping customers successfully adopt, integrate, and operate platform capabilities while driving continuous improvement across the platform. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will combine deep technical expertise with exceptional customer engagement skills to solve complex engineering challenges, accelerate application onboarding, improve developer experience, and maximize platform adoption. You will work directly with software development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle, providing technical guidance, resolving complex issues, and ensuring customers can confidently build, deploy, and operate mission applications. The ideal candidate is an experienced platform engineer who enjoys working directly with customers as much as solving technical problems. You are equally comfortable troubleshooting production issues, designing technical solutions, identifying opportunities for platform improvement, and building trusted relationships through engineering excellence and responsive technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Serve as the primary technical partner for assigned mission teams, providing mission focused technical engagement throughout application onboarding, deployment, and operations.
• Guide software development teams in adopting platform capabilities, engineering standards, and best practices to improve delivery speed, security, and operational reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, platform services, and application integrations.
• Collaborate with customers to understand technical requirements and recommend platform capabilities that best support mission objectives.
• Identify recurring technical challenges and partner with engineering teams to develop reusable platform capabilities that improve the overall developer experience.
• Develop technical solutions that simplify application onboarding, deployment, operations, and lifecycle management.
• Work closely with cloud engineers, Kubernetes engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and technical product managers to resolve cross-functional engineering challenges.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform reliability, automation, security, documentation, and operational processes.
• Develop technical documentation, implementation guidance, knowledge articles, and engineering standards that improve customer success and platform adoption.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical reviews, and engineering initiatives that shape the future direction of the platform.
• Monitor platform health, identify operational risks, and proactively recommend improvements that increase platform stability and customer satisfaction.
• Build trusted relationships through responsive technical leadership, clear communication, and a commitment to customer success.
Expected Outcomes:
• Enable mission teams to rapidly adopt and effectively utilize platform capabilities with minimal engineering friction.
• Resolve complex technical challenges while improving customer confidence, platform adoption, and overall developer experience.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate recurring customer issues through automation, standardization, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction through proactive engineering and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor who strengthens long-term partnerships between platform engineering and mission teams.
This is a fully remote/hybrid position.
About the Must Haves
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• United States citizenship
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent Department of Defense approved Information Assurance certification
• Demonstrated experience engineering and supporting cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and modern software delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across infrastructure, networking, platform services, and software deployments while communicating effectively with technical customers.
• Experience providing mission focused technical engagement by building trusted relationships, understanding customer requirements, and delivering practical engineering solutions.
• Experience implementing automation, Infrastructure as Code, and operational best practices that improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing technical decisions and continuously improving platform capabilities.
Karthik Consulting is seeking Senior Platform Engineer with the below skillset.
Senior Platform Engineer
Fulltime with Karthik Consulting
Location: Remote within United States
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
Salary: $185000 per year
Program Description
SPA is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to deliver mission focused technical engagement for our platform as a service solution supporting software delivery for Space Systems Command. This role serves as a trusted technical partner to mission teams, helping customers successfully adopt, integrate, and operate platform capabilities while driving continuous improvement across the platform. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will combine deep technical expertise with exceptional customer engagement skills to solve complex engineering challenges, accelerate application onboarding, improve developer experience, and maximize platform adoption. You will work directly with software development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle, providing technical guidance, resolving complex issues, and ensuring customers can confidently build, deploy, and operate mission applications. The ideal candidate is an experienced platform engineer who enjoys working directly with customers as much as solving technical problems. You are equally comfortable troubleshooting production issues, designing technical solutions, identifying opportunities for platform improvement, and building trusted relationships through engineering excellence and responsive technical leadership.
Key Responsibilities Include:
• Serve as the primary technical partner for assigned mission teams, providing mission focused technical engagement throughout application onboarding, deployment, and operations.
• Guide software development teams in adopting platform capabilities, engineering standards, and best practices to improve delivery speed, security, and operational reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, platform services, and application integrations.
• Collaborate with customers to understand technical requirements and recommend platform capabilities that best support mission objectives.
• Identify recurring technical challenges and partner with engineering teams to develop reusable platform capabilities that improve the overall developer experience.
• Develop technical solutions that simplify application onboarding, deployment, operations, and lifecycle management.
• Work closely with cloud engineers, Kubernetes engineers, cybersecurity specialists, and technical product managers to resolve cross-functional engineering challenges.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform reliability, automation, security, documentation, and operational processes.
• Develop technical documentation, implementation guidance, knowledge articles, and engineering standards that improve customer success and platform adoption.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical reviews, and engineering initiatives that shape the future direction of the platform.
• Monitor platform health, identify operational risks, and proactively recommend improvements that increase platform stability and customer satisfaction.
• Build trusted relationships through responsive technical leadership, clear communication, and a commitment to customer success.
Expected Outcomes:
• Enable mission teams to rapidly adopt and effectively utilize platform capabilities with minimal engineering friction.
• Resolve complex technical challenges while improving customer confidence, platform adoption, and overall developer experience.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate recurring customer issues through automation, standardization, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction through proactive engineering and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor who strengthens long-term partnerships between platform engineering and mission teams.
This is a fully remote/hybrid position.
About the Must Haves
• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of progressively responsible experience designing, building, and operating production Kubernetes platforms.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• United States citizenship
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or equivalent Department of Defense approved Information Assurance certification
• Demonstrated experience engineering and supporting cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and modern software delivery environments.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across infrastructure, networking, platform services, and software deployments while communicating effectively with technical customers.
• Experience providing mission focused technical engagement by building trusted relationships, understanding customer requirements, and delivering practical engineering solutions.
• Experience implementing automation, Infrastructure as Code, and operational best practices that improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering teams while influencing technical decisions and continuously improving platform capabilities.
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