Mount Indie
Platform Engineer
Mount Indie, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Mount Indie is hiring a Platform Engineer to support a recently awarded Intelligence Community program. As a Platform Engineer, you'll have a minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructure solutions. In this role you will play a critical role in architecting, deploying, and managing our customer's core platform, ensuring its availability, performance, and security.
What you'll do:
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement a resilient and scalable platform architecture.
•Lead the planning, development, and deployment of platform components, services, and applications.
•Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks to optimize platform performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
•Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
•Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively optimize systems for maximum efficiency.
•Manage cloud-based infrastructure and orchestration tools to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
•Drive security best practices throughout the platform, implementing measures to safeguard data, applications, and services.
•Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack and provide effective resolutions to minimize downtime.
Required Qualifications:
•Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.
•Minimum of 6 years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
•Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure platform architectures at scale, in the cloud and on-premise, across multiple classification domains (IL5 to IL6+) simultaneously.
•Proficiency in AWS (Azure a plus), with a strong understanding of cloud services and networking.
•Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes; specifically experience with OpenShift is highly preferred
•Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex system issues.
•Experience working on an Agile development team.
•Ability to obtain privileged user access.
Desired Qualifications:
•One or more relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS Solution Architect Associate, with Kubernetes certifications highly preferred.
•Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
•Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Artifactory, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube.
•Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go, Ruby, or similar.
•Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.
What you'll do:
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement a resilient and scalable platform architecture.
•Lead the planning, development, and deployment of platform components, services, and applications.
•Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and frameworks to optimize platform performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
•Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
•Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively optimize systems for maximum efficiency.
•Manage cloud-based infrastructure and orchestration tools to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
•Drive security best practices throughout the platform, implementing measures to safeguard data, applications, and services.
•Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack and provide effective resolutions to minimize downtime.
Required Qualifications:
•Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Poly.
•Minimum of 6 years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
•Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure platform architectures at scale, in the cloud and on-premise, across multiple classification domains (IL5 to IL6+) simultaneously.
•Proficiency in AWS (Azure a plus), with a strong understanding of cloud services and networking.
•Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes; specifically experience with OpenShift is highly preferred
•Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex system issues.
•Experience working on an Agile development team.
•Ability to obtain privileged user access.
Desired Qualifications:
•One or more relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS Solution Architect Associate, with Kubernetes certifications highly preferred.
•Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
•Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Artifactory, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube.
•Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go, Ruby, or similar.
•Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.