Cornerstone Defense
Platform Engineer - TX
Cornerstone Defense, Richardson, Texas, United States, 75080
Location: Richardson, Texas
Type: Contract
Job #3418
Platform Engineer
Richardson, TX
Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control. Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management Provide operational support for the platform Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS. Required Skills:
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher Desired Skills:
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab) Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore) Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++) Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Job Responsibilities:
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control. Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management Provide operational support for the platform Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS. Required Skills:
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible. Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher Desired Skills:
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab) Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore) Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++) Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days
Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.