Job Title: Platform Engineer
Location: San Antonio, TX (On-Site)
Clearance: Top Secret or Top Secret w/SCI
Certifications: CompTIA Security+ (must be willing to obtain within six months of hire)
Position Summary:
The Principal Platform Systems & Integration Engineer provides senior technical leadership in support of the Government Product Manager for Party Bus, Platform One’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. This role is responsible for the architecture, integration, and operation of a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant cloud platform primarily hosted in AWS and managed through GitOps-based workflows.
The engineer serves as a trusted technical advisor to the Government, ensuring Party Bus delivers reliable, secure, and enterprise-grade platform capabilities that enable mission teams to rapidly deploy and operate software at scale while remaining compliant with security and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Architecture & Systems Engineering
- Lead the design, architecture, and technical evolution of the Party Bus PaaS.
- Architect high availability and scalable AWS-based platform services, ensuring resiliency and fault tolerance across environments.
- Define platform patterns that support multi-tenant isolation, operational stability, and mission onboarding at scale.
- Translate product requirements into system architectures that balance reliability, security, and developer experience.
GitOps & Continuous Delivery
- Serve as a technical authority for GitOps-based platform management, leveraging tools such as GitLab and ArgoCD.
- Design and oversee GitOps workflows that manage Kubernetes clusters, platform services, and tenant configurations.
- Ensure platform changes are traceable, auditable, and reproducible through declarative configuration and version control.
CI/CD & GitLab
- Architect and guide GitLab CI pipelines supporting platform services and tenant workloads.
- Ensure CI/CD pipelines integrate testing, security scanning, and policy enforcement aligned with DevSecOps best practices.
- Support scalable pipeline patterns suitable for enterprise and multi-tenant use.
Kubernetes & Platform Operations
- Provide senior technical leadership for Kubernetes-based platform environments.
- Ensure Kubernetes clusters are designed and operated for reliability, security, and lifecycle management.
- Guide cluster upgrades, capacity planning, and operational monitoring.
Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure as Code
- Architect and oversee AWS infrastructure supporting Party Bus, including networking, compute, identity, and security services.
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform experience preferred, to provision and manage cloud resources.
- Ensure infrastructure configurations remain aligned with approved security baselines and the system ATO.
Government Advisory & Product Support
- Advise the Government Product Manager on platform capabilities, architectural decisions, and technical tradeoffs.
- Evaluate proposed platform changes for operational impact, security posture, and scalability.
- Verify cloud and platform resources remain compliant with the system’s Authority to Operate (ATO).
Enterprise Platform Operations
- Support the operation of enterprise-grade shared services, including monitoring, logging, identity integration, and access control.
- Collaborate with security, networking, and platform stakeholders to ensure operational readiness and continuity.
- Contribute to platform governance, standards, and best practices across mission tenants.
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