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Lead Platform Engineer
Projected Duration : 12-15-2025 to 09-30-2026
Position Type : 6 Months Contract
Location : Herndon, VA
Job Description
We’re looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to join the team. You’ll help operate a secure, reliable, and highly available Cloud, managed hosting, and developer platform.
You should thrive in a fast-paced environment, be able to translate business and development team requirements into automated platform solutions. You’ll be responsible for working with the Security and Compliance team and Platform Engineers to implement secure infrastructure features, configurations, and automation to create a dynamic platform-as-a-service for development teams.
You should have expertise in Cloud, network security, containers and Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. You should have excellent communication skills, be able to work independently while leading others, and be able to work across development teams. You should be able to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Day-to-day Responsibilities:
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 and CI/CD and developer workflow automation, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodeStar and IaC, such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or AWS CloudFormation
3 years of experience with Kubernetes Deployment and GitOps tooling, such as Helm, Flux, or Argo CD and Cloud and Network Security architecture, such as least privilege and IAM, secrets management, RBAC, and Boundary Protection
Additional Experience:
Experience with AWS EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, KMS, SSM, ELB, VPC, or 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 dynamic and static code analysis
Experience with hardened AMIs and Container Images, such as DoD STIGs and CIS Benchmarks
Experience with SIEMs, Audit, and Logging
Experience with APM, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk
Experience with troubleshooting platform application deployments and configurations