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Company: SAIC
Location: San Diego, CA
Career Level: Mid-Senior Level
Industries: Technology, Software, IT, Electronics

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a cleared (TS/SCI) Senior Platform Engineer in support of NAVWAR's Naval Operational Architecture (NOA) Program in San Diego, CA.

As a Platform Engineer supporting Naval Operational Architecture, you will play a critical role in operationalizing AI for next-generation naval platforms and systems. You'll focus on building and managing secure, scalable cloud-based environments to support advanced analytics, AI/ML workloads, and autonomous systems. This position involves hands-on engineering with cutting-edge technologies, close collaboration with cross-functional teams, and direct support of mission-critical DoD capabilities. Your work will directly enhance the warfighter's ability to execute distributed maritime operations and maintain tactical superiority. This is a recently awarded contract, funded for five years.

Work is performed on site in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities: 

  • Design, build, and maintain secure cloud infrastructure within AWS GovCloud environments
  • Configure and manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation. Support secure data flow across multiple systems, ensuring compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and STIG requirements
  • Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to streamline deployment pipelines and container management
  • Optimize cloud resources for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues within cloud, networking, and containerized environments
  • Partner with AI/ML engineers and software developers to deploy and integrate advanced analytics platforms and tools
  • Maintain detailed technical documentation to support system operations and compliance
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and team members

Qualifications

Education and Certification Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related STEM field and nine (9) or Master's degree and seven (7)
  • Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Security+ strongly preferred

Citizenship and Clearance Requirements:

  • US Citizenship
  • Active TS SCI security clearance

Required Skills and Experience: 

  • At least 9 years' experience working as a cloud engineer, cloud administrator, cloud architecture, DevOps engineer, IT Specialist, platform engineer, site reliability engineer, release engineer, systems administrator, systems engineer, or similar role
  • AWS Gov Cloud 
    • Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM) 
    • Cloud based networking 
    • VPCs, Subnets, Routing Tables, Security Groups, Route 53 
    • RHEL Linux Administration
    • Relational Database Service - RDS
    • PostGres 
    • Secure Storage Service - S3
    • Elastic Search 
  • IaC
    • Extensive Ansible Scripting experience
    • IaC Tooling such as Terraform or Cloud Formation 
  • Cyber
    • Linux STIG remediation experience 
  • DevSecOps 
    • Docker basics
    • Ability to troubleshoot a running container

Preferred Skills and Experience: 

  • Openshift or Kubernetes 
  • Airflow 
  • Kafca 
  • RabbitMQ 
  • Apache 
  • Kibana 
  • Adapting open-source product to work with GovCloud
    • Domino Data Labs
    • Tobias
    • Fiddler

Please view our Program page for more information and to view all open positions available: https://jobs.saic.com/pages/NOA.


Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


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