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Lead Platform Engineer

Remote, worldwide
A defense technology and government services contractor
Posted 7 Oct 2026

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About the role

A lead engineer building and sustaining a software factory platform for a military space program, running Kubernetes and DevSecOps tooling in Azure cloud and classified environments.

What you will do

Set guidelines and standards for deployments to Azure cloud and Kubernetes environments
Stand up and operate multiple Kubernetes clusters in lab and classified production settings
Deploy and configure Jira, Confluence, GitLab and other DevSecOps tools
Build automation for virtual machine infrastructure as code pipelines
Onboard user teams onto the platform and help integrate their applications through pipelines
Handle sustainment such as monitoring, patching, upgrades and vulnerability remediation

What they look for

US citizenship and a DoD Secret clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret
Ten or more years of related DevOps or cloud experience
Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
Hands on experience with Azure, Kubernetes and Linux based virtual machines
Experience with Helm, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
Familiarity with tools such as Harbor, SonarQube, Keycloak, Nexus and ArgoCD

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