Platform Engineer - Mclean, VA - TS/SCI CI Polygraph Information Technology

Platform Engineer needed for an opportunity with SOC's client to work in Mclean, Virginia.

Active Top Secret/SCI with CI Polygraph is required!

Responsibilities

This is a trail-blazing type project with a lot of newer technologies. We are looking for someone who is driven, wants to help push the boundaries, and has the willpower to help guide a team in new technical directions. You need to be able to understand objectives laid out by leadership, interpret them, and translate that to a coherent technical vision which you then execute with your team. You must be a curious person willing and ready to independently learn. You must be able to clearly paint your technical vision for others both technical and non-technical. You will:

• Meet with the customer and guide their requirements development process as they develop their AI capabilities
  
• Be a central player in guiding the development of the system to include which features are added, how they are built, and when they are built.
  
• Be on keyboard implementing the architecture
  
• Work extensively on OpenShift and associated architecture
  

• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
  
• Experience with Kubernetes or derivative.
  
• Our platform is OpenShift so OpenShift experience is preferred
  
• DevOps background
  
• Ansible or other automation language
  
• Git
  
• Python
  
• Some sort of development background. We do not expect that you have been a software engineer, but you should be a proficient programmer
  
• RHEL
  
• Strong understanding of networking
  
• We aren't looking for a network engineer, but we will expect that we could, for example, ask you to look at the OVN-Kubernetes topology and with some study and access to a live system you could understand the network flow
  
• Ability to independently self-educate. This project spans a huge swath of technologies and no one is going to walk into it knowing everything. You will be expected that armed with the internet you can independently identify those things you do not know, teach yourself, and come back with answers.
  

• Any background in AI will be seen as a huge plus
  
• We are deploying OpenShift AI so experience with it is a bonus
  
• Dell PowerScale
  
• Math/computer science background
  
• Keycloak
  
• Active directory
  
• Container repositories
  
• We are running Quay
  
• Experience building PKI infrastructure
  
• Software defined networking
  
• Experience implementing NIST/STIGs
  
• MinIO
  
• Ceph (or other software defined storage)
  
• Technical architecture
  
• Understand things such as out of band management networks, management interfaces, patch cycles, etc.
  

In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the hourly rate range for this role is $100.00 to $140.00. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

Employment Pre-requisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: Successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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