Senior Platform Engineer

Position Summary:

· Keeps the automation platform honest: legacy Jenkins jobs that still matter, Ansible desired state for application components, and signed container images in AWS. Operating-system administration stays with Networking.

Responsibilities:

· Stabilize legacy Jenkins jobs used in CI/CD. Add monitoring. Do not create new Jenkins jobs.

Migrate jobs that still produce value into Azure DevOps pipelines and retire unused jobs through an alternatives analysis.

· Maintain Ansible Tower playbooks for application-level desired state on Linux components. Support WSO2 patch testing around Networking’s monthly operating-system window. Do not administer the guest operating system or the virtual machine.

· Own the AWS Elastic Container Service registry path: signed and scanned images only, promotion through environments, and no unregistered production containers.

· Implement infrastructure-as-code and compliance-as-code so security and configuration baselines travel with the pipeline.

· Apply the common pipeline pattern in Azure DevOps and, until retirement, in Jenkins. Include software composition analysis, static analysis, secrets scanning, and automated accessibility checks where a user interface is present.

· Set Git and Azure Repos branch policies, reviewed merges, and signed commits where required.

· Build and keep the operational dashboards the lead uses for pipeline health, and feed StatusCake and Splunk verification after production deploys.

· Right-size non-production environments and flag idle spend for the monthly FinOps report. The architect and portfolio manager own the recommendation; this seat supplies the evidence.

· Share quality engineering with the DevOps Lead. There is no separate test-team seat. A production deploy that fails scanning, tests, secrets checks, or required Section 508 checks does not ship.

· Cross-train a backup on Jenkins, Ansible, and the registry.

Required qualifications:

· At least 5 years of platform automation in production, with substantial Jenkins or Azure DevOps and Ansible or an equivalent desired-state tool.

· AWS production experience, including container images and environment promotion. GovCloud experience is strongly aligned to this environment.

· Infrastructure-as-code you can show, with a rollback story.

· Discipline about the boundary with the operating-system owner: you test and configure the application platform; you do not patch the host.

· Able to obtain a DOJ Public Trust at the tier required for the privileged access this seat uses.

Preferred qualifications

· Ansible Tower, Jenkins on AWS, and an AWS container registry in the same environment.

· A Jenkins-to-Azure-DevOps migration you personally executed.

· Secrets scanning, image signing, and policy-as-code in the pipeline.

· FinOps evidence: idle environment cleanup tied to a monthly cost report.

· AWS, Azure DevOps, or GitHub certification, or equivalent depth.

Work location

Vachi Info Tech Inc office at 4100 Lafayette Center Dr, Suite 204, Chantilly, VA 20151. Biweekly on-site visits to the US OJP headquarters (999 N. Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC).

Pay: $137,000. 00 - $166,000. 00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Are you a US Citizen?

Work Location

In person