Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

NetServices (NSI) is an IT services firm with a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions to drive lasting results. Now operating as a subsidiary of Synergy ECP, NSI continues to stand out in a crowded contracting landscape through its agility, strong customer focus, and commitment to retaining exceptional talent. By taking on challenging IT initiatives, we cultivate our talent and are continually evolving through our partnerships with clients. Our close-knot team of highly cleared engineers, analysts, and program managers represent some of the best talent locally available.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer (Senior) to join our visible technical program driving the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cloud platform that supports collection, management and analysis of digital engineering information in an architecture that provides seamless digital thread and enables tool interoperability, including data structures suitable for AI applications. This program delivers engineering services for Linux and Windows cloud-based infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including end-point devices, Cloud services, virtualized applications, and storage systems. Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application technology including containerized solutions with orchestrated workflows. Our platform uses a mix of Open Source, Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) and Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) software and targets cloud-native constructs. The environment offers a secure-by-default configuration, implementing an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, and governance policies. We follow a mostly Agile workflow and adhere to DevSecOps principles. We value fast iteration and a customer-oriented approach while being mindful about security. This is a fast paced, challenging, and career rewarding experience to recruit and develop top talent and solutions on one of the most complex and high-profile programs within the government customer community.

Key Skills: Cloud, AWS, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, Linux, CI/CD

Responsibilities:

Provide IT technical services and technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas

Complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities

Deploy and maintain infrastructure in a cloud-based environment

Manage networking, including ingress/egress for service routing and zero-trust access

Work with internal engineering resources as well as customer end-users to design and enhance the user interfaces for supported applications, maintaining responsive designs that accommodate challenging technical and functional requirements

Create and maintain automated unit test cases meeting the required code coverage thresholds

Support operations functions, including root cause identification, remediation and documentation (e.g., user guides, ‘how to’ guides, infrastructure diagrams)

Work closely with clients and cross-functional departments on technical issues including software system troubleshooting and maintenance and to communicate project statuses

Integrate platform components and operators; implement the deployment and monitoring for these following IaC, CaC and DevSecOps principles

Monitor system performance

Test new features and services and fix bugs

Develop mature solutions for monitoring and reporting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk

Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for DBs, Servers, and applications using DevSecOps tools to include Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Foreman, GitLab, Selenium

Configure IdAM, Active Directory, LDAP resources

Prepare technical presentations for government and senior leadership

Work effectively in a group environment

Work across infrastructure that contains both Linux and Windows

Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical, management and customer both written and verbally

Utilize robust troubleshooting skills

Instill and apply solid engineering rigor, to include configuration management, testing

Develop/engineer as part of an Agile scrum team

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

We are actively seeking candidates with a minimum of 10 years' relevant experience. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM field is required. Specific skills include the following:

Possess a minimum of Active TS/SCI w/ CI Poly

At a minimum, meet DoDD 8570 requirements (Security+ CE Certification)

Expertise working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test automation, automated deployments, and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects

Solid ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor

Experience architecting and developing software/infrastructure for scalable, secure, and distributed systems on Single- or Multi-cloud environments (prefer AWS, but will consider Azure)

Strong background in Kubernetes and cloud-native security

Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.

Experience architecting or integrating with workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or custom-built systems

Experience designing APIs such as REST or GraphQL and event-driven systems

Experience integrating complex systems using APIs, message queues, streaming platforms, and ETL pipelines

Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation

Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills

Experience with Elasticsearch for search and analytics

Experience developing environment monitoring capabilities

Experience with Cloud architecture and system design

Experience developing cross domain capabilities

Strong documentation skills

Familiar with Agile Methodologies

Ability to accurately decompose tasks for Jira stories

Developing integration interfaces using Python, PowerShell, and Groovy

Experience and comfort with basic DevOps Tooling (Foreman, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)

Familiarity with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)

Expertise with automated testing tools (Selenium) and experience developing automated test plans for both security and functional requirements

Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC

Familiarity with customer system security requirements and processes

Preparation and maintenance of system components

Experience with API Gateways, catalogs

Experience with DevOps testing

Understanding of Active Directory

Written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly and succinctly describe complex issues

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills:

Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Experience with Cloud solution optimization

Experience configuring and instrumenting visualization tools (Grafana, Splunk)

Experience configuring and instrumenting tools providing end to end visibility, monitoring, and analytics

Experience with ServiceNow

Other Cloud experience (Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM)

Integration of virtualized applications and application streaming or layering techniques

Assist with leading and overseeing a total system perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies and requirements of cloud services, infrastructure and security domains

SharePoint admin experience

IBM Enterprise Lifcycle Management experience

TeamWork Cloud/Cameo experience

Tableau experience

Security Clearance requirement:

Must possess active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph to be considered for this role.

Other Requirements:

U.S. Citizenship

Compensation Spotlight:

For this role, our typical salary range starts at $180,000 and stretches up to $220,000. But