Senior Platform Engineer - Secure, Automated Infra & CI/CD

BaseCamp Consulting & Solutions; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BaseCamp Consulting & Solutions seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and sustain the infrastructure for an enterprise API gateway. You will operate Kubernetes/OpenShift, automate with Terraform/Ansible, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, all within a Government-regulated environment.

The role requires an active MBI suitability and U.S. citizenship, with experience in multi‑AZ high availability and observability.

Qualifications

• Active MBI suitability determination, current and transferable as of your start date
• U.S. citizenship, as required for Customer contractor personnel
• Eight years of hands-on platform, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering in production, including three years supporting a Federal system subject to FISMA
• Production operation of Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, including cluster resources, ingress controllers, operators, and Helm
• Infrastructure-as-code at scale with Terraform and Ansible, including reusable modules and version-controlled state
• Ownership of enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab, with artifact repositories and security scanning integrated
• AWS-native architecture across VPC, EC2 or EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch, or equivalent depth in another major cloud
• Demonstrated design and operation of multi-AZ, high-availability services meeting a stated availability commitment
• Observability engineering with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, or the ELK stack
• Linux administration on RHEL, shell or Python scripting, and troubleshooting at the OS and network layer
• Certificate and secrets handling for platform services - TLS and mutual TLS, key rotation, and a secrets management platform
• Experience promoting configuration through Government-controlled environments under formal change control
• Technical documentation - design artifacts, runbooks, and SDLC deliverables that hold up under Government review
• Agile or Scrum delivery alongside Government product owners and multiple contractor teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems, or equivalent hands-on experience

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate the gateway control and data planes on Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift - namespaces, RBAC, quotas, ingress and routes, rolling updates
• Automate installation, configuration, upgrade, and patching with Helm, Terraform, and Ansible, delivered as reusable modules rather than one-off scripts
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or GitHub Actions with artifact management, image scanning, and approval gates under Government change control
• Manage declarative gateway configuration as code and promote it across environment tiers with tested rollback
• Architect multi-AZ high availability and disaster recovery for the gateway tier and its datastores
• Provision and maintain supporting cloud infrastructure - VPC design, subnets and routing, security groups, managed databases, backups, encryption
• Automate certificate lifecycle, mutual TLS, and secrets handling for platform components
• Build observability across metrics, logs, and traces with dashboards and alerting tied to service objectives
• Establish performance and capacity baselines, load test the gateway tier, and tune for throughput and latency
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and design artifacts sufficient for Government and follow-on staff to sustain the platform

Job description

BaseCamp Consulting & Solutions seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and sustain the infrastructure for an enterprise API gateway. You will operate Kubernetes/OpenShift, automate with Terraform/Ansible, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, all within a Government-regulated environment.

The role requires an active MBI suitability and U.S. citizenship, with experience in multi‑AZ high availability and observability.