Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Location:
Chantilly, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 107900 - 195050
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
This position is for a Platform Engineer for a technical development program supporting the Sponsors IdAM/ICAM programs located on a secure network. As a Platform Engineer on this program you will design develop and implement reliable robust and resilient systems used by software development teams. Demonstratable working experience with automation tools (e.g. Ansible Terraform GitHub Actions) Kubernetes containers or serverless is strongly preferred. The Platform Engineer will work with a large team of developers software engineers cybersecurity engineers database administrators and system architects.
*** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant hands-on systems engineering experience. ***
Primary Responsibilities
- This role delivers an innovative product service or a combination of products and services that address a customers specific requirements
- Support the development of enterprise software solutions within the customers cloud environments.
- This role provides execution guidance and practical engineering support to mission teams
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- BS degree and 8 years experience. Additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Must have experience with cloud providers such as AWS
- Experience in Platform engineering
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Working with the teams security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
- Performing regular maintenance of cloud infrastructure resources to include patching configuration upgrading as needed
- Experience interacting with cross functional project teams including Software Development System Engineering Security Compliance and Quality Assurance
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstratable working experience with automation tools such as Ansible Terraform Jenkins GitHub Actions and Packer
- Demonstratable working experience with containers (i.e. Docker/Podman) or their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Demonstratable working experience with serverless platforms (e.g. AWS Lambda)
- Experience with security accreditation process
- Experience working in Agile SAFe and Scrum environments
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Original Posting:
October 8 2025For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $107900.00 - $195050.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
