Platform Engineer, DevOps — AWS, EKS & PaaS

Navstar; Chantilly (VA); Presencial; USD 190.000 - 240.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Competitive health care premiums

Flexible Spending Accounts

Generous PTO and federal holiday leave

Employer paid STD/LTD

Employer paid life insurance

401K plan and employer match

Referral programs

Professional development assistance

Resumo da vaga

Navstar is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an internally managed PaaS on AWS with EKS and Kubernetes. You will automate infrastructure, onboard teams, and drive GitOps in a security-focused environment.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding, CI/CD, and platform tooling, with on-site work in Sterling, VA, and up to 25% travel. You will lead IaC, containerization, and observability efforts, collaborating with developers and security teams to deliver reliable,

Qualificações

• Active TS/SCI U.S. Security Clearance.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong hands-on programming experience with Python, Go, or another general-purpose language used to build automation and developer tooling, along with proficiency in shell scripting.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining reusable automation as software, including version control, testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and troubleshooting workloads in AWS, including Amazon EKS.
• Strong practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including application deployments, services, configuration, secrets, networking, and workload troubleshooting.
• Experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Ability to help application developers adopt unfamiliar cloud and Kubernetes practices through direct technical support, clear explanations, and working examples.
• Practical understanding of cloud identity and access management, networking, observability, and secure application delivery.
• Proven ability to diagnose problems across application and infrastructure boundaries and deliver code-based solutions.
• Ability to work 100% onsite in Sterling, VA, with up to 25% CONUS travel.

Responsabilidades

• Write, test, review, and maintain code that provisions infrastructure, configures platform services, automates application delivery, and supports day-to-day operations.
• Build and improve an internally operated PaaS using AWS, Amazon EKS, and supporting Kubernetes technologies.
• Onboard application teams with limited cloud experience through hands-on implementation, pairing, practical documentation, and reusable examples.
• Work with developers to assess application requirements and implement containerization, configuration management, secrets integration, health checks, resource settings, and deployment strategies.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, Helm charts, deployment templates, and self-service workflows that reduce the effort required to adopt the platform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows that automate builds, testing, security checks, artifact publishing, deployments, and rollbacks.
• Configure and integrate platform capabilities such as ingress, service-to-service networking, identity and access management, secrets management, and observability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, and actionable alerts using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch; help application teams use them to diagnose problems.
• Troubleshoot issues across application code, containers, Kubernetes, networking, AWS services, and delivery pipelines, and implement durable fixes.
• Embed security controls and vulnerability remediation into platform code and delivery workflows in collaboration with security and cloud engineering teams.
• Maintain platform components through upgrades, configuration changes, and operational improvements, with appropriate testing and recovery procedures.
• Contribute to technical design decisions while remaining directly responsible for implementation, code reviews, documentation, and delivery.

Conhecimentos

Python

Go

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Automation

Troubleshooting

Formação

Associate degree or higher in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Ferramentas

AWS

Amazon EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Argo CD / Flux

Descrição da vaga

Navstar is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an internally managed PaaS on AWS with EKS and Kubernetes. You will automate infrastructure, onboard teams, and drive GitOps in a security-focused environment.

This role emphasizes hands-on coding, CI/CD, and platform tooling, with on-site work in Sterling, VA, and up to 25% travel. You will lead IaC, containerization, and observability efforts, collaborating with developers and security teams to deliver reliable,