Platform Operations Engineer

Absolute Business Solutions Corp.; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Planning – 401k match

Health and Wellness Allowance

Career Development funds

Volunteer Time Off

Charitable Match

Referral Program

LOV Awards

Job summary

Absolute Business Solutions Corp in Bethesda, MD seeks a Platform Operations Engineer to support the DOMEX Technology Platform, ensuring a reliable, scalable containerized stack and OSINT processing in a Kubernetes environment. Collaborate with engineers, system administrators, and data teams; active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required; on-site with some remote options.

Salary ranges from $110,000 to $225,000, commensurate with education and experience, with DoD 8570 IAT II+ and

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph.
• DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP).
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems.
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS).
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large-scale data platform.
• Lead incident response, triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Define and track SLI/SLOs for reliability metrics.
• Collaborate in SAFe Agile release planning and cross-team coordination.
• Maintain a knowledge-intensive, secure, and compliant operations environment.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance

Polygraph eligibility

Kubernetes

GitLab pipelines

Linux

Cloud services (AWS)

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Cross-functional coordination

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab pipelines

Linux

Docker / containerized environments

AWS

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Logstash / Kibana

Job description

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Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years we’ve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC is seeking a mission-driven Platform Operations Engineer to join a high-impact team driving the design, development, and deployment of a modern technology stack supporting the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role directly supports our customer’s mission to centralize and standardize the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.

You’ll be part of a mission-focused, solutions-oriented team that values inclusion, innovation, collaboration, and continuous professional growth. While the majority of work is performed on-site at our customer location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule, and some tasks may be completed remotely.

Security clearance required for this role

An Active TS/SCI with ability/willingness to obtain a CI polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

As a Platform Operations Engineer you will work with a team to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of a full stack, containerized microservices platform. You also will partner with a multidisciplinary team of systems engineers, developers, integrators, and system administrators in the following areas:

• System Reliability & Performance — Ensuring uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low code tools like Appian
• Monitoring & Observability — Leveraging monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Incident Response — Leading triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post incident reviews
• SLIs & SLOs — Defining and tracking reliability metrics
• SAFe Agile — Participating in release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination

Requirements

You bring enthusiasm, the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience, and meet the following qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master’s; additional experience may substitute for a degree
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph
• At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate))
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments
• Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS) and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak
• Demonstrated success in cross functional coordination and execution
• Strong communication skills and the ability to perform under pressure during incidents

Desired Skills

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience with creating customized dashboards to track SLIs and other key performance indicators
• Experience with Appian or other low-code platforms
• Experience with technologies such as Kafka, AMQP/JMS, Prometheus/Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT automation, Nexus, or GraphQL
• Knowledge of security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, data protection)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi)
• AWS cloud certifications

Salary is commensurate with education and years’ experience. Salary range for this requisition is: $110,000-$225k annual.

Who we are

ABSC is a technology and services company that combines the agility of a small business with proven processes refined over more than two decades in business. We specialize in supporting public sector clients in the Intelligence, Defense, Health, and Safety areas. Our team stands ready to deliver the next generation of programs, personnel, and solutions to help advance our federal government customers’ driving innovation, agility, and security across all mission areas.

Some of our benefits include

• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program

Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.