Platform Operations Engineer - TS/SCI, On-Site Bethesda

Base-2 Solutions; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Floating holidays

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). The role focuses on ensuring availability, reliability, and performance of a containerized microservices stack across Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support OSINT tasks within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, with on-site duties in Bethesda, MD and a requirement for Top Secret/SCI

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering, CS, or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II+ certification required.
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, and containerized environments.
• Experience with cloud services, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Ensure 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.
• Leverage monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Lead triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post incident reviews.
• Define and track reliability metrics such as SLIs and SLOs.
• Participate in SAFe Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitLab pipelines

Linux

AWS

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Java

Python

React

SAFe Agile

Education

BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field

Master's degree

Tools

Appian

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Nexus

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). The role focuses on ensuring availability, reliability, and performance of a containerized microservices stack across Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support OSINT tasks within the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, with on-site duties in Bethesda, MD and a requirement for Top Secret/SCI