
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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