Senior Cloud Platform & Infra Engineer - DoD Ready, Remote

Phase2 Technology; Hampton (VA); Hybrid; USD 112,900 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Phase2 Technology seeks an experienced C2 Systems Platform and Infrastructure Engineer to lead cloud-scale infrastructure, Kubernetes production operations, and secure, air-gapped deployments for DoD environments. You will guide clients as they modernize IT infrastructure and manage day-to-day platform engineering tasks.

The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, a DoD 8570 IAT Level II Security+ CE, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience operating Kubernetes at production scale with cluster deployment and day-2 operations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps using GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or OpenTelemetry).
• Experience designing in secure, air-gapped or DDIL environments.
• Ability to translate mission and reliability requirements into automated platform designs.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance and DoD 8570 IAT Level II Security+ CE Certification.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production cloud infrastructure and guide modernization efforts.
• Lead deployment and security hardening of Kubernetes clusters.
• Design resilient, automated platforms for mission-critical systems.
• Collaborate with customers to meet reliability and security requirements.

Skills

Kubernetes production operations

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Observability stack

Secure, air-gapped design

Translate mission requirements into to

Security clearance readiness

Security+ CE certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Engineering

12+ years of infrastructure experience in lieu of a degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Istio

Linkerd

Consul

Job description

Phase2 Technology seeks an experienced C2 Systems Platform and Infrastructure Engineer to lead cloud-scale infrastructure, Kubernetes production operations, and secure, air-gapped deployments for DoD environments. You will guide clients as they modernize IT infrastructure and manage day-to-day platform engineering tasks.

The role requires 8+ years of relevant experience, a DoD 8570 IAT Level II Security+ CE, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.