Platform Engineer III – DoD Systems & Automation

KOAM Engineering Systems (KES); San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Koam Engineering Systems, Inc. (KES Inc.) invites applications for a Platform Engineer III to support DoD lab environments, focusing on integration, automation, and platform sustainment.

The role demands cross‑discipline skills in systems engineering, networking, virtualization, and DevOps within a hybrid work setting. Responsibilities include building and maintaining Linux/Windows infrastructure, managing virtualized environments, and delivering automation through modern CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related fields or equivalent experience.
• Security+ (DoD IAT Level II) or ability to obtain within 3 months.
• U.S. Citizenship and active DoD clearance/eligibility at Secret level.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end platform integration for DoD lab, test, and integration environments.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into executable implementation steps with dependencies.
• Evaluate capabilities and recommend hardware, software, compute, storage, and network approaches.
• Build, configure, administer, and sustain physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Support virtualization, containerization, and platform technologies (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Develop automation to improve repeatability, deployment, and sustainment.
• Manage scripts and software updates using Git-based repositories and CI/CD pipelines.
• Document configurations, network diagrams, and troubleshooting steps.

Skills

Systems integration

DevOps

Automation

Networking

Linux

Windows

Virtualization

Scripting

CI/CD

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Security+ (DoD IAT Level II)

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Koam Engineering Systems, Inc. (KES Inc.) invites applications for a Platform Engineer III to support DoD lab environments, focusing on integration, automation, and platform sustainment.

The role demands cross‑discipline skills in systems engineering, networking, virtualization, and DevOps within a hybrid work setting. Responsibilities include building and maintaining Linux/Windows infrastructure, managing virtualized environments, and delivering automation through modern CI/CD practices.