Platform Engineer, Secure Cloud & IaC (GovCloud)

Precise Systems Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Holiday pay

Job summary

Precise Systems Inc. is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, automate, deploy, and sustain secure cloud and platform environments for Navy and DoD capabilities.

The role emphasizes IaC, scripting, and AWS GovCloud, with work across enterprise, cloud, containerized, and hybrid environments. The position requires hands-on engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, and the ability to support modernization while maintaining secure operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Experience supporting platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, infrastructure automation, or related roles.
• Experience with enterprise, cloud, containerized, hybrid, or application hosting environments.
• Experience with scripting and IaC to automate operations.
• Experience deploying, configuring, troubleshooting, monitoring, and modernizing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, automation, deployment, integration, and sustainment of secure platform environments across AWS GovCloud and hybrid architectures.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code to automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and monitoring.
• Use scripting to streamline operations, reduce manual steps, and enable scalable platform support.
• Support AWS GovCloud infrastructure development, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and logging.
• Maintain OS, identity, networking, storage, and app hosting environments for secure mission operations.
• Assist with deploying and scaling containerized platforms and orchestration environments.
• Apply cybersecurity and platform hardening, perform patching, compliance, and audit-ready documentation.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

AWS GovCloud

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

OpenShift

Kubernetes

NGINX/Apache

PostgreSQL

Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux)

Windows Server

Git workflows

Job description

Precise Systems Inc. is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, automate, deploy, and sustain secure cloud and platform environments for Navy and DoD capabilities.

The role emphasizes IaC, scripting, and AWS GovCloud, with work across enterprise, cloud, containerized, and hybrid environments. The position requires hands-on engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, and the ability to support modernization while maintaining secure operations.