Senior Platform Engineer - Secure DevSecOps & Kubernetes

Clarity Innovations, LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clarity Innovations is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, deploy, and maintain the foundational infrastructure and platform services that run mission-critical applications securely and at scale.

The role emphasizes platform automation, container orchestration, CI/CD in secure environments, and improving developer workflows while shaping standards for auditable, repeatable platform operations aligned with mission needs.

Qualifications

• BS and 8–10 years relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• TS/SCI security clearance eligibility (US Citizens).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, and maintain platform services and infrastructure automation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks using Go, Python, and related tooling.
• Deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize containerized apps in Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps workflows for auditable, repeatable deployments.
• Apply security best practices across platform infrastructure and pipelines.
• Monitor platform health and improve reliability, scalability, and resilience.
• Collaborate with engineers, cybersecurity, data engineers, and stakeholders.
• Explore AI agents and AI-enabled automation to improve operations.

Skills

Bash

Ansible

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

Linux

CI/CD

Networking

Automation

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/CS/SE

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Terraform

Job description

Clarity Innovations is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, deploy, and maintain the foundational infrastructure and platform services that run mission-critical applications securely and at scale.

The role emphasizes platform automation, container orchestration, CI/CD in secure environments, and improving developer workflows while shaping standards for auditable, repeatable platform operations aligned with mission needs.