What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Platform Engineer position at ADN Group?
Job Title: Lead Platform Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 06 Months of Contract
LinkedIn Profile: Required for Submission
NOTE: NO H1B // Local Candidates with DL
Job Description:
We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join our team and support the operation of a secure, reliable, and highly available cloud, managed hosting, and developer platform.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to translate business and development requirements into automated platform solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Security and Compliance teams, as well as Platform Engineers, to implement secure infrastructure features, configurations, and automation that enable a dynamic platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for development teams.
The candidate should have strong expertise in cloud technologies, network security, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, along with excellent communication skills. This role requires the ability to work independently while leading others and collaborating across multiple development teams in an agile environment.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Operate and support a secure, reliable, and highly available cloud and developer platform
Translate business and development team requirements into automated platform solutions
Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure infrastructure configurations and features
Work with Platform Engineers to design and maintain scalable platform services
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation
Support containerized and Kubernetes-based production environments
Lead and support platform initiatives while collaborating across development teams
Top 3 Must-Have Critical / Hard Skills
7 years of experience with DevOps for containerized and Kubernetes production systems
4 years of experience with AWS, CI/CD, and developer workflow automation tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar, along with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation)
3 years of experience with Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tooling (Helm, Flux, or Argo CD) and cloud and network security architecture, including least privilege, IAM, secrets management, RBAC, and boundary protection
Additional Experience
Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, and Route53
Experience with AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
Experience leading and mentoring junior Software or DevOps Engineers
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with Istio, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, or Keycloak
Experience with vulnerability management and static and dynamic code analysis
Experience with hardened AMIs and container images, including DoD STIGs and CIS Benchmarks
Experience with SIEMs, audit, and logging
Experience with APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk
Experience troubleshooting platform application deployments and configurations
Warm regards,
Vishal (Victor) Verma | Assistant Manager
vishal@nsitsolutions.com
NS IT Solutions
www.nsitsolutions.com
Location: Herndon, VA
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 06 Months of Contract
LinkedIn Profile: Required for Submission
NOTE: NO H1B // Local Candidates with DL
Job Description:
We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join our team and support the operation of a secure, reliable, and highly available cloud, managed hosting, and developer platform.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to translate business and development requirements into automated platform solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Security and Compliance teams, as well as Platform Engineers, to implement secure infrastructure features, configurations, and automation that enable a dynamic platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for development teams.
The candidate should have strong expertise in cloud technologies, network security, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, along with excellent communication skills. This role requires the ability to work independently while leading others and collaborating across multiple development teams in an agile environment.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Operate and support a secure, reliable, and highly available cloud and developer platform
Translate business and development team requirements into automated platform solutions
Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure infrastructure configurations and features
Work with Platform Engineers to design and maintain scalable platform services
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation
Support containerized and Kubernetes-based production environments
Lead and support platform initiatives while collaborating across development teams
Top 3 Must-Have Critical / Hard Skills
7 years of experience with DevOps for containerized and Kubernetes production systems
4 years of experience with AWS, CI/CD, and developer workflow automation tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar, along with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation)
3 years of experience with Kubernetes deployment and GitOps tooling (Helm, Flux, or Argo CD) and cloud and network security architecture, including least privilege, IAM, secrets management, RBAC, and boundary protection
Additional Experience
Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, and Route53
Experience with AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, or AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
Experience leading and mentoring junior Software or DevOps Engineers
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with Istio, Kyverno, Prometheus, Grafana, or Keycloak
Experience with vulnerability management and static and dynamic code analysis
Experience with hardened AMIs and container images, including DoD STIGs and CIS Benchmarks
Experience with SIEMs, audit, and logging
Experience with APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk
Experience troubleshooting platform application deployments and configurations
Warm regards,
Vishal (Victor) Verma | Assistant Manager
vishal@nsitsolutions.com
NS IT Solutions
www.nsitsolutions.com