Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 4 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $107.9k - $195.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Leidos

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Leidos is a leading systems integrator in science, technology, and engineering, providing solutions that transform and enable the missions of its customers. The company operates across various markets, including aviation, defense, energy, government, healthcare, intelligence, science, and space. Leidos is involved in AI, digital modernization, cyber operations, and integrated and mission software systems. With a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability, Leidos also engages in charitable efforts and community enrichment programs. Additionally, it contributes to developing solutions for counter-unmanned aerial systems and electric vehicle infrastructure for military applications.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, integration, and hands-on implementation of enterprise platform infrastructure supporting private cloud SDDC modernization initiatives • Design and implement automated deployment of VMware-based virtualization, compute, storage, and platform services supporting ECS, CPS, IaaS, and SMC • Deploy and integrate VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, and associated platform services • Collaborate with networking, cybersecurity, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into secure enterprise solutions • Develop platform automation using IaC, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, or similar technologies • Integrate COTS compute, virtualization, storage, and cloud infrastructure into secure enterprise environments • Design and implement virtualization, resource management, clustering, high availability, and workload optimization solutions • Develop and maintain platform architectures, engineering designs, implementation plans, configuration standards, build guides, and technical documentation • Participate in Agile activities including sprint planning, technical reviews, engineering design reviews, and cross-functional collaboration • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on platform engineering, virtualization, automation, and infrastructure modernization • Travel to NATO sites to install, configure, integrate, validate, test, and troubleshoot enterprise platform infrastructure • Support deployment, commissioning, technical validation, customer acceptance, infrastructure modernization, technical planning, platform strategy, and proposal development activities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline with 8–12 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6–10 years of relevant experience • Active NATO Secret clearance or higher • Experience designing and implementing enterprise virtualization and platform infrastructure solutions • Strong experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and associated virtualization technologies • Experience deploying and integrating VMware NSX, SDDC, and private cloud environments • Extensive experience implementing enterprise platform automation using IaC, Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, or similar technologies • Strong understanding of enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure resiliency principles • Experience integrating enterprise platform solutions with networking, cybersecurity, backup, and cloud infrastructure technologies • Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, networking, storage, and cybersecurity practices • Experience operating within Agile, SAFe, or DevSecOps delivery frameworks • Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical collaboration skills • Experience supporting defense, government, or highly regulated development environments • VMware Certified Professional, VMware Advanced Professional, or equivalent VMware certification preferred • Experience with VCF lifecycle management and automation preferred • Experience supporting NATO environments and compliance frameworks preferred • Experience with HPE Synergy, HPE ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, or equivalent enterprise compute platforms preferred • Familiarity with Dell PowerStore, HPE Alletra, or equivalent SAN solutions preferred • Experience with infrastructure monitoring, capacity management, and performance optimization tools preferred • Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure modernization and enterprise platform engineering initiatives preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and Wellness programs • Income Protection • Paid Leave • Retirement • Approximately 25% international travel opportunity to The Hague, Netherlands, and other NATO locations