Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required

MedStar Health; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in healthcare is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to provide cloud engineering support to U.S. Government customers. This role involves designing and implementing cloud infrastructure, managing software deployment, and ensuring system reliability across various platforms. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in the field and a proven ability to work with distributed systems and automation tools.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining software applications.
• Expertise in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Rancher, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure for applications.
• Automate testing, deployment, and configuration management.
• Maintain and ensure reliability of the infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

Distributed Systems

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Linux Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required

Job Locations

US-Remote

Job ID

2025-12865

# of Openings

5

Category

Information Technology

Benefit Type

Salaried High Fringe/Full-Time

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 and create 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)

LMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. LMI is committed to the fair treatment of all and to our policy of providing applicants and employees with equal employment opportunities. LMI recruits, hires, trains, and promotes people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, protected veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact [e-mail]
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