Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud & Ops (Hybrid)

HII; Newport News (VA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

HII Newport News Shipbuilding seeks a senior Platform Engineer to design and develop solutions for complex applications and system concerns. You’ll provide senior engineering support across cloud and container environments, ensuring platform stability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities include patching, deployment pipelines, access management, and incident response, with a focus on scalability and reliability. Occasional hybrid telework is available and travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 9 years of exempt experience or equivalent.
• Master’s Degree with 7 years of experience.
• Ph.D. with 4 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems and system administration issues.
• Provide senior level engineering support for enterprise platform operations across cloud environments and container orchestration.
• Ensure platform stability, security, performance and compliance; patching and deployment pipelines.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud and container operations

DevOps practices

Troubleshooting

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Ph.D.

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud service environments

CI/CD pipelines

Windows servers

Linux servers

Job description

HII Newport News Shipbuilding seeks a senior Platform Engineer to design and develop solutions for complex applications and system concerns. You’ll provide senior engineering support across cloud and container environments, ensuring platform stability, security, and performance.

Responsibilities include patching, deployment pipelines, access management, and incident response, with a focus on scalability and reliability. Occasional hybrid telework is available and travel may be required.