Platform Engineer - Mclean, VA - TS/SCI CI Polygraph Information Technology

Platform Engineer needed for an opportunity with SOC's client to work in Mclean, Virginia.

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph is required!

Responsibilities

If you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise leading equipment, and seek to secure and maintain compliance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in meeting critical compliance and security baselines of next generation infrastructure to support AI workloads.

You will join a diverse team of platform engineers to design, deploy, maintain, and secure platform infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside of the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and securing infrastructure.

Network Development Engineers perform high quality network and system operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustain engineering, best practices applications, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.

• Proficient in with Python or Go programming language
  
• Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible. To write scripts and automate network configurations
  
• Experience with key OpenShift networking concepts, like Open vSwitch (OVS) / Open Virtual Network (OVN) to create an overlay network on top of the physical infrastructure to facilitate pod communication across nodes
  
• Experience using the OpenShift Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) to interact with different network plugins and manage pod networking
  
• Familiarity with configuring, deploying. And maintaining the MetalLB Operator for traffic load balancing on bare metal clusters
  
• Experience using Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for discovery, load balancing. Service to service authentication. Failure recovery, metrics and monitoring services
  
• Proficient with the Network Observability Operator for network debugging and insights
  
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members, vendors and customers to understand requirements and implement solutions
  
• Proficient time management to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast paced networking environment
  

• Candidates must have an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
  
• Automation experience
  
• Scripting experience
  
• Experience with Python - GO or Rust is nice to have
  
• Linux experience
  
• Network experience or Security experuence is nice to have
  

Employment Pre-requisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: Successful completion of a background investigation, and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

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