Platform Security Engineer- Secret Clearance Required

Sherpa 6, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Retirement savings plan

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Sherpa 6, Inc. is seeking a Platform Security Engineer to advance secure cloud platforms for mission-critical systems. You will own DevSecOps strategy, automate cloud deployments, and mentor teams across engineering disciplines.

You will design secure architectures, implement IaC, and enforce strong access controls while ensuring release readiness and regulatory compliance. This role requires active security expertise and collaboration with a customer-driven team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, build engineering, or similar.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Hands-on AWS cloud engineering (compute, networking, IAM, storage) with IaC (Pulumi/Terraform).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with security gates (SAST, dependencies, containers).
• Ability to implement repeatable, auditable security controls (NIST, DoW ATO).
• Strong networking fundamentals and RBAC/least-privilege access.
• Continuous security monitoring: logging, vulnerability scanning, anomaly detection.

Responsibilities

• Support design and implementation of AWS-based solutions.
• Own DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches.
• Contribute hands-on while mentoring solution development.
• Collaborate to validate release readiness including security gates.
• Create and maintain release docs, schedules, rollback plans, release notes.
• Identify improvements for release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot build, pipeline, and deployment issues; monitor release metrics.
• Develop IaC to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Guide architectural evolution with customer teams.
• Research, propose, and validate customer-tailored solutions.
• Communicate status and recommendations; own DevSecOps deliverables.

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Groovy

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

Networking fundamentals

RBAC / least-privilege

SRE / CI-CD

Education

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

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

Description

Job Location: Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

Security Clearance: Active Secret security clearance required

Citizenship: US Citizenship required

Onsite Expectations: 20% onsite at customer site (APG)

Make an Impact Where It Matters Most

At Sherpa 6, you won’t just build secure cloud platforms—you’ll help shape the systems that protect our nation. We’re looking for a Platform Security Engineer who brings deep security expertise, strong networking fundamentals, and modern cloud engineering practices to support mission-critical systems for a highly engaged customer.

If you enjoy designing secure architectures, automating cloud infrastructure, integrating agentic AI into DevSecOps workflows, and solving complex technical problems that matter, you’ll find this an exceptional opportunity. You’ll join a collaborative, high-trust engineering team where your decisions immediately drive real-world outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
• You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches
• Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
• Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
• Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
• Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering , build engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Hands-on cloud engineering in AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform).
• Building CI/CD pipelines with security gates and scanning built in (SAST, dependency, and container scanning).
• Ability to take a set of security requirements and build a repeatable, auditable process to maintain compliance — implementing a control set such as NIST, supporting the ATO (Authority to Operate) process for systems on a DoW network, and demonstrating compliance to DoW auditors.
• Strong networking fundamentals — the layers, how they interact, and hands-on experience securing them.
• Experience implementing role-based, least-privilege access.
• Continuous security monitoring — access logging, vulnerability scanning, and anomaly detection.

Nice to Have

• Designing and automating secure MLOps pipelines — data ingestion and transformation through model deployment.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at scale — multi-site policy enforcement, monitoring, and failover.
• Automating SDN configuration for distributed or fielded systems.
• Secure configuration management and update automation for edge/fielded deployments.
• Experience in a classified / ATO'd government test or integration environment.

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers, passionate about what they do, love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and we're not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harm's way.

Background/Drug Screening

Successful completion of a pre-employment background & drug screening will be required as a condition of hire.

ADA

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

EEO/AA

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

Salary Range

The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.

Salary Description

$105,000 - $160,000