Senior Platform Engineer – TS/SCI | Kubernetes & CI/CD

SOC LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

SOC LLC is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a multi-year contract on-site in Chantilly, VA. Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph is required.

You will design, deploy, and maintain development pipelines and the underlying infrastructure to support AI workloads, with heavy emphasis on Kubernetes, automation, and security. Join a diverse platform engineering team to build scalable, secure, and reliable systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive Kubernetes cluster experience (EKS/AKS/GKE/OpenShift or self-managed).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain and secure platform infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver reliable pipelines and infrastructure.
• Build and optimize scalable Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Kubernetes design and ops

Docker & containerization

CI/CD tooling

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

SRE/DevOps fundamentals

Linux administration

Monitoring & alerting

GitOps workflows

Networking in Kubernetes

Security in Kubernetes

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Tekton

Argo Workflows

Terraform

Pulumi

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

SOC LLC is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for a multi-year contract on-site in Chantilly, VA. Active TS/SCI with CI polygraph is required.

You will design, deploy, and maintain development pipelines and the underlying infrastructure to support AI workloads, with heavy emphasis on Kubernetes, automation, and security. Join a diverse platform engineering team to build scalable, secure, and reliable systems.