# Platform Engineer

**Company**: Dark Wolf
**Location**: Northern Virginia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $125,000.00-$150,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Dark Wolf is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of cloud-based applications.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with cloud computing technologies and platforms such as Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Deploy and maintain common Kubernetes platform services on cloud-native architecture.

- Integrate a Kubernetes platform with common enterprise services to meet organisational security requirements.

- Implement secure automation, effective monitoring, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Deploy and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines across multiple environments.

- Support and collaborate with a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies.

- Develop and iterate best practices to increase the quality and velocity of deployments.

- Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management.

**Required Qualifications:**

- 0-4+ years of experience with commercial cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- Experience designing and deploying self-managed Kubernetes to commercial cloud platforms.

- Experience integrating and providing cloud platform services within a Kubernetes cluster.

- Experience designing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.

- Experience with DevSecOps tools and processes such as GitLab CI, Artifactory, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Helm, Kustomize.

- Demonstrated knowledge in Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps processes, and DoD cybersecurity requirements.

- Solid problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and critical thinking abilities.

- B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related discipline (or relevant experience in lieu of a degree).

- DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certifications (e.g., CompTia Security+ CE Certification).

- US Citizenship and an active DoD Secret security clearance or higher.

**Desired Qualifications:**

- Experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL DBMS.

- Experience deploying and maintaining Platform One's Big Bang suite of tools.

- Experience working with the DHA.

- Experience with DoD FedRAMP authorised cloud platforms such as AWS GovCloud and/or Cloud One.

- Experience standing up and maintaining AWS services including RDS, EMR, ECR, EKS, and S3.

- Experience deploying Kubernetes using Rancher RKE2.

- Knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation process and security requirements.

- Experience using DISA enterprise security products including HBSS and ACAS and performing security hardening to satisfy STIG requirements.

- Experience installing and configuring a service mesh for cluster ingress/egress, mTLS, and authorisation and authentication of services.

- Experience providing Identity Management services within a cloud or Kubernetes environment such as Open ID Connect (OIDC) or SAML SSO.

This position is local to the Falls Church, VA area, with attendance on site required about 50% of the time. The compensation for this role is estimated to be approximately $125,000.00-$150,000.00 commensurate on experience.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Terraform
- DevSecOps
- GitLab CI
- Artifactory
- ArgoCD
- FluxCD
- Helm
- Kustomize
- Agile
- Scrum
- DoD cybersecurity requirements
- CompTia Security+ CE Certification

### Nice to have
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL DBMS
- Platform One's Big Bang suite of tools
- DHA
- DoD FedRAMP authorised cloud platforms
- AWS GovCloud
- Cloud One
- Rancher RKE2
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) accreditation process
- DISA enterprise security products
- HBSS
- ACAS
- STIG requirements
- service mesh
- Open ID Connect (OIDC)
- SAML SSO

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