# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company**: Iron EagleX (IEX), a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)
**Location**: Crystal City, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,250 - $258,750
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support our Engineering team in Crystal City, VA. This role will lead the design, implementation, and management of our secure, on-premises cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Infrastructure & Orchestration: Architect, deploy, and manage on-premises cloud infrastructure using RKE2 and maintain storage solutions like Longhorn and Object storage.

- Platform Enablement: Host and maintain robust data science environments, including software such as POSIT Workbench/Connect and Hive Metastore.

- AI/ML Infrastructure: Manage and scale robust GPU clusters, Ray Clusters for fine-tuning machine learning models, and VLLM Routers for efficient model inference.

- CI/CD & Automation: Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Git, Helm charts, and ArgoCD for reliable software delivery.

- Security & Compliance: Ensure continuous FIPS compliance across the environment. Actively manage and mitigate critical and high-level vulnerabilities.

- Identity & Access: Implement and maintain robust authentication and authorization mechanisms using Keycloak and Open Policy Agent (OPA).

- System Administration: Pull and manage container images from secure registries such as Harbor, Docker Hub, or Containeryard.

Requirements:

- 15+ years of related experience

- Current TS/SCI Clearance with current or willingness to obtain CI polygraph

- Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, administering, and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments;

- Strong Linux systems administration skills;

- Experience implementing authentication and authorization solutions;

- Hands-on experience with Git-based development and deployment workflows;

- Experience with Argo CD or similar tools;

- Experience managing Kubernetes storage solutions;

- Experience hosting and administering data science or analytics platforms;

- Experience configuring and operating systems in accordance with FIPS or comparable security and compliance requirements;

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Linux Server Administration
- Cluster Administration
- Cloud Infrastructure
- CI/CD

### Nice to have
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- Go
- Bash

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