DevOps Platform Engineer, Senior

631 Booz Allen Hamilton_United States; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to develop, manage, and secure a container platform using modern cloud technologies. You will drive modernization across environments, lead architectural decisions, and collaborate with development teams to deliver scalable, secure container solutions.

The role emphasizes GitOps, automated compliance, and secure software supply chains, with a strong focus on enterprise cloud-native platforms and platform engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments.
• 10+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness.
• Experience leading container-platform modernization and cloud-native transformations.

Responsibilities

• Develop container management software to meet client needs and enable secure container adoption.
• Support the team by informing strategy and design while ensuring standards are met in the containerization process.
• Recommend resources to help clients manage and securely adopt containers and enhance cloud platforms.

Skills

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Technical leadership

Container platforms

GitOps

Cloud-native

Scripting (Python/Linux)

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Jenkins

Azure

Job description

DevOps Platform Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity: Everyone is trying to harness the cloud, but not everyone knows how. As a DevOps engineer, you’re eager to develop, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities. We need you to develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges. As a senior DevOps Platform Engineer at Booz Allen, you can use your technical skills to affect mission-forward change. On our team, you’ll hone your skills using the latest cloud technologies as you look for ways to improve your client’s environment with current container software to ensure seamless orchestration. Using your DevOps platform experience, you’ll support your team as you inform strategy and design while ensuring standards are met throughout the containerization process. You’ll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers. Additionally, you’ll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms. Work with us to use cloud platform technology for good. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience in the development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
• 10+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving issues related to CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness
• Experience serving as a technical lead, principal engineer, lead systems engineer, solution architect, chief engineer support lead, or technical authority for a complex platform, product, or mission system
• Experience leading container-platform modernization, platform-as-a-service implementation, cloud-native transformation, enterprise infrastructure modernization, or tactical-edge platform engineering
• Experience with GitOps, policy-as-code, automated compliance validation, container-image scanning, software bills of materials, artifact provenance, and secure software supply-chain implementation
• Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions
• Experience developing, managing, and securing containers
• Experience working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience supporting Department of the Navy, Department of War, joint, maritime, afloat, expeditionary, tactical-network, command-and-control, or mission-system programs
• Experience with platform engineering in disconnected, intermittent, limited-bandwidth, edge-computing, afloat, expeditionary, or contested-network environments
• Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, or Azure
• Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks
• Experience creating and improving continuous deployment tools built on Kubernetes
• Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open-source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Linux Shell Script
• Top Secret clearance
• Master's degree

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD). This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

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Work Model

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

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