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Senior Platform Engineer

Washington D.C.💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-29

Core

Design and operate secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines for cloud-native software, AI models, and agentic applications within a government ecosystem.

Role type

Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Secure, repeatable engineering pipelines for software and AI workloads

Domain

Defense / Government / Cloud-Native Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, GitLab CI/CD, NIST 800-53, RMF/ATO process, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi/Ansible), Python/Go/Bash, Linux systems, container security, software supply-chain security

Preferred skills

Continuous Authorization (cATO), AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, GitOps tooling (Flux/Argo CD), Policy enforcement (Kyverno/OPA), SBOM/SLSA, IAM platforms, Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

Responsibilities

Design secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines for cloud-native and AI workloads; Translate NIST 800-53 and RMF requirements into automated engineering controls; Identify and remediate security risks early in the development lifecycle; Support the end-to-end ATO/RMF lifecycle including evidence generation and remediation; Develop Infrastructure as Code for consistent, auditable environments; Implement software supply-chain security practices including SBOM and artifact signing; Collaborate with government and vendor teams to resolve cross-platform security issues; Establish repeatable patterns for promoting capabilities into classified environments.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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