Who we are!
Platinum Technologies is a Northern Virginia based integrated solutions firm that specializes in Cybersecurity, Cloud and Digital Services to the Public Sector. Our team solves hard problems and helps our Mission Partners achieve their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products – we want to hear from you.
We lead with technical expertise, but that is just the tip of the iceberg – the ‘Why’ matters. At Platinum, we don’t hire people to do a job. We provide professional and leadership development to complement our self-motivated domain experts. Our teammates are dot-connecting leaders that operate in a mutually accountable environment to deliver thought leadership, expert technical analysis, and quality execution for our clients.
You.
Platinum Technologies is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our fast-growing company.
This role is a REMOTE role. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Must reside in the United States.
What You Get To Do.
- Senior architect responsible for the overall design and architecture for hybrid, multi-cloud and on-premise cloud-based solutions
- Develop, coordinate, and manage Cloud architectures and design documents with a focus on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
- Ability to develop and deliver clear, concise written artifacts related to cloud enterprise IT architecture and design
- Ability to analyze existing IT architecture and design new innovative and secure architectures leveraging cloud environments
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure in support of application development teams
- Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate code testing, integration, and deployment processes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and architects, to ensure seamless application deployment and integration
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to achieve 99.99%+ system uptime
- Automate infrastructure and application provisioning using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and AWS CloudFormation
- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch
- Develop deployment scripts and workflows in Python, Shell, or Golang to ensure efficient delivery pipelines
- Ensure systems meet security requirements by integrating tools such as OWASP ZAP, Tenable Nessus, and Netsparker
- Support cloud migrations and optimize AWS environments for performance, security, and cost efficiency
Required Qualifications.
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science or information technology, along with an accredited qualification in management consultancy or a related field
- An active public trust is required to start, with the ability to obtain and maintain a public
- Minimum years (15) years of experience
- Minimum six (6) years of programming experience
- Knowledge of NIST SP-800-53 Fed Ramp controls
- Experience using a wide variety of open source and COTS technologies and tools
- Experience automating operations and workflows
- Solid understanding of and experience implementing and integrating CI/CD
- Tools from the ground up, such as Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence), Github, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Selenium, SonarQube, Gatling, JMeter, JUnit, AMP, aChecker, Jaws, Netsparker, OWASP ZAP, Tenable Nessus, Splunk, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, Grafana, Slack/Google Hangouts Chat
- Strong background working in an agile development environment, collaborating with Application Development and Architecture Teams
- Experience with service-oriented architecture, web services, Application Programming Interfaces
- Experience working in a High Availability environment with 99.99%+ uptime
- Strong background in Amazon Web Service (AWS), MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Apache, NGINX, PHP
- Comfortable writing deployment scripts in languages such as Python, Shell, AWS Cloud Formation, Groovy, and Golang
- Experience with systems and IT operations
- Comfort with automated, frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
- Strong grasp of automation tools
- Data management skills
- A strong focus on business outcomes
- Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
The Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information.
