Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Platform Engineer at Octo, you shall have senior software engineering experience building and operating hybrid-infrastructure developer platforms (private and commercial cloud infrastructure) at an Individual Contributor Level. A successful candidate has prior experience deploying Kubernetes in multiple ways and supporting automation of platform management at enterprise scale. The engineer shall have experience developing platform APIs that make common software operations scalable and repeatable. The engineer will feel comfortable maintaining the underlying services required to host containerized applications.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

Provide macro-level architectural solutions of a multi-region hybrid infrastructure (on-prem and commercial cloud), a cross-cutting application and integration architecture, and a data management and analytics architecture. This effort will provide the Air Force with feature strategic team members integrated with the Kessel Run teams to support a culture of continuous improvement across the teams. Focus on providing DevSecOps software engineering expertise, Kubernetes infrastructure, and multi-region platform services that help modernize Legacy software systems and supporting external DoD software initiatives.

Years of Experience : 8 years of experience or more

Education : Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical Discipline – Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience

Location : Langley Air Force Base, VA

Clearance : US Citizen w/ ability to obtain Secret clearance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Three-plus (3+) years of experience developing production software leveraging modern languages (including: Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc.).
·  One-plus (1+) years of experience developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, etc.
·  Three-plus (3+) years of experience with agile and lean software development philosophies.
·  One-plus (1+) years of experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases, e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.
·  Two-plus (2+) years of demonstrated experience with modern version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc.
·  Five-plus (5+) years of experience leading teams building and developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
·  Five-plus (5+) years of experience building developer platform services and APIs that scale in production.
·  Five-plus (5+) years of experience building production services using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
·  Three-plus (3+) years of experience in Identity and Access Lifecycle Management Operations and Controls.
·  Resume demonstrates deep understanding of modern microservices architectures, design patterns, resiliency techniques, and optimizations.
·  Manage, report, and facilitate certification of access for all in-scope resources (including SaaS, AWS, Azure, CSS managed applications, tools, and systems).
·  Must be able to work on-site daily, if required.
·  CompTIA Security+ CE or other DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 90 days of onboarding.
·  Clearance : US Citizen w/ ability to obtain Secret clearance

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  Effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization.