Platform Engineer

Stem IT; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A McLean, VA based cyber security company is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their scaling team. The role focuses on building and operating scalable infrastructure, with emphasis on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native tooling.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Platform/DevOps/SRE roles and hands-on experience with bare-metal Kubernetes in air-gapped environments. This is a fast-paced environment supporting critical infrastructure security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Platform, DevOps, SRE, or Infra engineering experience.
• Expertise in Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and major cloud providers.
• Scripting experience with Python and Bash.
• Ability to operate in a fast paced environment.
• Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments in air-gapped environments.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud providers

Python

Bash

Platform engineering

SRE

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

A McLean, VA based cyber security company is searching for Platform Engineer to join their scaling team. Their product is used to protect the nations critical infrastructure including water treatment facilities, power plants, manufacturing, supply chains, nuclear plants, etc. If you are looking to work on real problems that are critical to our national security this could be a good fit.

Required

• - 5+ years of Platform, DevOps, SRE, and/or Infrastructure engineering experience
• - Expertise in all things Kubernetes
• - Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, and any of the major cloud providers
• - Scripting experience with Python and Bash
• - Ability to operate in a fast paced environment
• - Experience with bare-metal Kubernetes deployments in air-gapped environments