Principal Platform Engineer

🕒 July 27

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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ASRC Federal

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2003

🎖️ Defense

🚀 Aerospace

🏛️ Government

Defense • Aerospace • Government

ASRC Federal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation that provides federal government contracting services across space, civilian, defense & intelligence, national security, and health markets. It delivers engineering solutions, digital operations and IT modernization, software, applications & analytics, supply chain management & logistics, infrastructure operations, and professional services to support missions such as NASA space programs, FAA aviation safety/operations, Air Force industrial support, cyber defense, and base/resiliency operations. The company operates a family of businesses whose earnings support ASRC’s more than 14,000 Iñupiaq shareholders and employs roughly 9,000 people.

📋 Description

• Engineer and sustaining upstream (vanilla) Kubernetes environments that enable reliable, repeatable software delivery environments • Python scripting and Helm-based Kubernetes packaging to automate platform workflows and deployments • Engineer secure-by-default Kubernetes platform capabilities, embedding security controls into automation, delivery workflows, and operational practices • Translate platform capabilities into repeatable PaaS services that accelerate internal delivery and enable customer-targeted outcomes • Operate container runtimes (Docker/Podman) and containerization to support CI/CD execution and cloud-native tooling deployments • Develop secure end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and provide organization-wide CI/CD tooling expertise, guidance, and support • Implement Kubernetes observability (logs, metrics, traces) and embed it into GitOps-driven automation to validate deployments, detect regressions, and accelerate incident response • Partner with development and infrastructure teams to automate deployments and release validation, applying best practices in delivery, testing, security, performance, and disaster recovery • Evaluate and adopt cloud-native OSS/COTS tools to meet platform needs, enable teams through knowledge transfer, and integrate new capabilities into standard workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field) or equivalent related work experience • This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a government secret clearance, U.S. Citizenship is required • This position requires the successful applicant to obtain and maintain the required security clearance or other authorization(s) within the necessary timeframe required by applicable contract(s) • Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in Sr DevOps, Platform Development, Sr Software Engineering or Sr Systems Administration in both on-prem, air-gapped and cloud-based environments • Understanding of core web technologies, including HTTPS, TLS/SSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and common delivery components • Experience with automation or development in C++, Rust or equivalent