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Platform Engineer

  2025-07-10     Kavaliro     Honolulu,HI  
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Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Interface with stakeholders and capture requirements, plan execution of technical requirements, and provide verbal and written briefs to government stakeholders.
  • Interface with IA/J6 to provide necessary documentation and artifacts through the RMF process, leading to full ATO.
  • Assist with deployment and architecture of KERNOS cluster on AWS IL6 environment.
  • Maintain a high availability RKE2 cluster in an air-gapped, on-prem datacenter environment.
  • Implement multiple control-plane nodes with a load balancer to ensure high availability, handle uptime, failovers, and scaling.
  • Update container baselines, apply system patches, and coordinate deployment of updates and security patches with the DEVSECOP team.
  • Deploy and remotely maintain Kernos clusters in the Pacific region.

Basic Qualifications

  • Must be a US citizen with an active DoD security clearance of secret or higher.
  • Able to live and work in secure environments at Hickam AFB and Camp Smith, Hawaii.
  • Willing to travel to the Indo-Pacific region as required.
  • Linux system administration experience.
  • Familiarity with DoD system security requirements and processes such as RMF, DISA STIG, container hardening, and security patching.
  • Maintain a minimum of Security+ certification.

Preferred Skills

  • Networking experience is a plus.
  • Motivated individual, willing to work in a small team environment, and assume different roles as needed.

Responsibilities When Required

  • Problem-solving skills with strong technical communication skills.
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud automation tools such as Terraform, GitOps, S3, EKS, AKS, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Experience architecting high availability core services like HA PostgreSQL, Minio, Ingress NGINX, Keycloak, etc.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining high availability Kubernetes clusters in an air-gapped environment.
  • Ability to generate and brief architecture design and network diagrams.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.
  • Paid Time Off (104 hours, accrued).
  • 401K with employer matching.
  • 6 holidays (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) plus two floating holidays.
  • Referral bonus program available.

Company Overview

We specialize in Cyber, Entity, and Multi-Int Analytics, aiding customers in mission-critical goals through extensive data analysis. Our core values include:

  • Integrity: Upholding the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
  • Customer Mission Success: Ensuring customer success beyond contractual obligations.
  • Employee Focus: Providing clear communication, excellent benefits, career advancement, and meaningful work.
  • Innovation: Continuously solving complex challenges to enhance mission success.

Job Requirements

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  • Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Job function: Information Technology
  • Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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