Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required

LMI Government Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to deliver engineering support for multiple products serving a U.S. Government customer. The role involves designing infrastructure, cloud automation, and ensuring software reliability across various platforms. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud technologies and software development.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, designing, and maintaining enterprise-level software applications.
• Expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting solutions for hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure for applications.
• Automate testing and deployment processes.
• Maintain reliability and security of cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Software Development

Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Practices

Automation Scripting

Linux

Networking

Containerization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Job description

Overview

LMI is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to provide cloud engineering support for multiple products that serve a United States Government customer.

At LMI, we’re reimagining the path from insight to outcome at The New Speed of Possible. Combining a legacy of over 60 years of federal expertise with our innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. We energize the brightest minds with emerging technologies to inspire creative solutioning and push the boundaries of capability. LMI advances the pace of progress, enabling our customers to thrive while adapting to evolving mission needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the infrastructure that applications will run on.
• select the appropriate hardware and software components, configure the networking and storage resources andcreate security policies.
• Ensure all new software functions smoothly across various programs and platforms, including mobile systems.
• Automate the testing, deployment and configuration management processes
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure including hardware, software and storage resources to ensure the infrastructure’s reliability, scalability and security.
• Maintain the overall health and stability of the applications that run on their organization's platform.
• Meet with managers and representatives of Government to discuss software issues and brainstorm methods of solving existing problems.
• Write original code and update existing code, ensuring that all code meets program requirements.
• Perform intensive testing of all new and existing programs to ensure they are free of errors and function as intended.
• Update and debug existing systems to ensure a smooth user experience and a uniform look across a variety of platforms.
• Keep up to date on the newest technological innovations in the field and be ready to apply relevant innovations to our software systems.

Qualifications

Required:

• Experience planning, analyzing, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software applications for an enterprise level system.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting and developing software/infrastructure for scalable, secure, and distributed systems on Hybrid or Multi-cloud environments.
• Experience using GitLab for CI/CD and automated deployments.
• Experience with writing Terraform, Ansible playbooks, Linux automation scripts, rudimentary APIs or automation scripts to interact with existing APIs, automated provisioning, Infrastructure as code and software development programming languages (Python, Java, GO).
• Strong familiarity using Linux toolsets to support and analyze network related topics and issues.
• Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience managing, administrating, configuring, deploying and maintaining environments and system integration tools, including Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm, & Grafana.
• Knowledge of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics at the container level with APM or other tools, including Splunk, ELK, and Prometheus.
• Knowledge IDAM requirements and technologies, including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, hardware tokens, OAuth 2.0, or OIDC.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (SEC+ or other)

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Knowledge of the government software development process and technologies
• Previous GovTech experience
• Previous experience obtaining an ATO for a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and working with Agile teams
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)