Senior Platform Engineer

Description

SAIC is seeking a cleared (TS/SCI) Senior Platform Engineer in support of NAVWAR's Naval Operational Architecture (NOA) Program in San Diego, CA.

As a Platform Engineer supporting Naval Operational Architecture, you will play a critical role in operationalizing AI for next-generation naval platforms and systems. You'll focus on building and managing secure, scalable cloud-based environments to support advanced analytics, AI/ML workloads, and autonomous systems. This position involves hands-on engineering with cutting-edge technologies, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and direct support of mission-critical DoD capabilities. Your work will directly enhance the warfighter's ability to execute distributed maritime operations and maintain tactical superiority. This is a recently awarded contract, funded for five years.

Work is performed on site in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure within AWS GovCloud environments.

• Configure and manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation.Support secure data flow across multiple systems, ensuring compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and STIG requirements.

• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to streamline deployment pipelines and container management.

• Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues within cloud, networking, and containerized environments.

• Partner with AI/ML engineers and software developers to deploy and integrate advanced analytics platforms and tools.

• Maintain detailed technical documentation to support system operations and compliance.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and team members.

Qualifications

Education and Certification Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related STEM field and nine (9) or Master's degree and seven (7).

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Security+ strongly preferred.

Citizenship and Clearance requirements:

• US Citizenship

• Active TS SCI security clearance

Required Skills and Experience:

• At least 9 years' experience working as a cloud engineer, cloud administrator, cloud architecture, DevOps engineer, IT Specialist, platform engineer, site reliability engineer, release engineer, systems administrator, systems engineer, or similar role.

• AWS Gov Cloud

• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Cloud based networking

• VPCs, Subnets, Routing Tables, Security Groups, Route 53

• RHEL Linux Administration

• Relational Database Service - RDS

• PostGres

• Secure Storage Service - S3

• Elastic Search

• IaC

• Extensive Ansible Scripting experience

• IaC Tooling such as Terraform or Cloud Formation

• Cyber

• Linux STIG remediation experience

• DevSecOps

• Docker basics

• Ability to troubleshoot a running container

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Openshift or Kubernetes

• Airflow

• Kafca

• RabbitMQ

• Apache

• Kibana

• Adapting open-source product to work with GovCloud

• Domino Data Labs

• Tobias

• Fiddler

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Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER:

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability