Senior Platform Engineer: DoD-Ready Cloud & Edge

NODA AI; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) with company match

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

NODA AI is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Austin to architect and maintain the infrastructure powering our autonomous vehicle orchestration platform. You will own deployment pipelines, automation, and security frameworks across AWS, on‑prem, and edge deployments for DoD‑level resilience.

The role focuses on scalable, secure infrastructure rather than ML ops, with a path toward larger multi‑domain deployments and rigorous security standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation.
• Expert-level proficiency with Docker containerization and container orchestration concepts.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals.
• Understanding of security best practices for enterprise and government environments.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar).
• Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deploying ROS2-based microservices and orchestration software across multiple environments.
• Implement container orchestration using Docker, with a growth path toward Kubernetes as the platform scales.
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure, on-premises deployments, and edge device provisioning for autonomous vehicle fleets.
• Develop infrastructure automation and configuration management tools to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Implement and maintain DoD IL4/IL5 security compliance, including encryption, access controls, and audit logging.
• Build internal tooling and CLI utilities to improve developer productivity and deployment reliability.
• Design observability and monitoring systems for distributed autonomous vehicle orchestration across multiple domains.
• Ensure infrastructure resilience and disaster recovery capabilities for mission-critical deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize deployment strategies for constrained edge computing environments.
• Support field deployment operations and troubleshoot infrastructure issues during customer demonstrations.

Skills

Security-minded

Systems thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

Python scripting

Bash scripting

CI/CD practices

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Linux

Job description

NODA AI is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Austin to architect and maintain the infrastructure powering our autonomous vehicle orchestration platform. You will own deployment pipelines, automation, and security frameworks across AWS, on‑prem, and edge deployments for DoD‑level resilience.

The role focuses on scalable, secure infrastructure rather than ML ops, with a path toward larger multi‑domain deployments and rigorous security standards.