Senior DevOps Platform Engineer – AWS EKS & PaaS

Navstar Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care premiums (employee paid by

Employer-paid STD/LTD

401K plan with employer match

Generous PTO and federal holidays

Professional development assistance

Job summary

Navstar Inc. seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate a PaaS on AWS/EKS. You will write and maintain infrastructure code, automate deployments, and enable application teams with scalable tooling.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, collaboration with developers, and delivering secure, observable platform services. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of software engineering/DevOps experience, strong Python/Go scripting, and deep AWS/Kubernetes expertise.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• 10+ years in software engineering/DevOps/platform eng.
• Associate degree or higher in CS/SE/IT.
• Strong Python/Go scripting and shell scripting.
• Hands-on AWS/EKS and Kubernetes experience.
• IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation.
• CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and maintain code for infra provisioning and platform services.
• Build and improve an internally operated PaaS on AWS/EKS and Kubernetes.
• Onboard application teams with limited cloud experience and provide hands-on guidance.
• Implement containerization, configuration, secrets, networking, and deployment strategies.
• Develop reusable IaC modules, Helm charts, and self-service workflows.
• Maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows (builds, tests, security checks, deployments).
• Configure platform features like ingress, IAM, observability, secrets management.
• Implement monitoring/debugging with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch; train teams to use them.
• Troubleshoot across apps, containers, Kubernetes, AWS, and pipelines; apply durable fixes.
• Embed security controls and vulnerability remediation into platform code.
• Maintain platform components through upgrades and testing.
• Contribute to technical design and code reviews.

Skills

10+ years experience

Python/Go scripting

Shell scripting

CI/CD automation

Cloud platform experience

Onsite collaboration

Education

Associate degree or higher in CS/SE/IT

Tools

AWS (EKS)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Kustomize

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Navstar Inc. seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate a PaaS on AWS/EKS. You will write and maintain infrastructure code, automate deployments, and enable application teams with scalable tooling.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, collaboration with developers, and delivering secure, observable platform services. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of software engineering/DevOps experience, strong Python/Go scripting, and deep AWS/Kubernetes expertise.