Principal Platform Engineer (DevSecOps Lead)

Analytica is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer (DevSecOps Lead) to lead the infrastructure automation security and operational engineering of a high-visibility analytics environment supporting a critical federal mission. This role serves as the foundational platform architect responsible for ensuring the environment is stable secure scalable and optimized for continuous delivery.

This leader will own the strategy and execution for cloud infrastructure container platforms CI/CD automated testing observability identity and access management and production support while partnering closely with the Solutions Architect to enable both current operations and future-state modernization.

Our company has been recognized byInc. Magazineas one of the fastest-growing 250 businesses in the US for 3 years. We work with U.S. government clients in health civilian and national security missions to build better technology products that impact our day-to-day lives. The company offers competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses employer-paid health care training and development funds and 401k match.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the platform and DevSecOps lead for a secure enterprise analytics environment spanning development test staging and production.
• Define and implement the platform engineering roadmap for reliability automation security scalability and operational excellence.
• Lead architecture and operations for AWS infrastructure OpenShift/container platforms CI/CD pipelines release automation and environment standardization.
• Embed security compliance vulnerability management code quality and policy enforcement throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Oversee configuration management release management automated deployment database change promotion and production support.
• Establish strong monitoring logging alerting incident response and recovery practices to improve system resilience and operational insight.
• Drive secure identity and access management including support for SSO/OAuth and policy-based access control.
• Partner with engineering testing security and operations teams to support integrated delivery reduce operational risk and accelerate modernization.
• Lead development of SOPs runbooks deployment procedures and other operational documentation while mentoring engineers on DevSecOps and platform best practices.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain any required clearance or suitability determination.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering Cybersecurity or related field. Masters degree a plus
• 12 years of experience in platform engineering DevOps/DevSecOps infrastructure engineering site reliability or systems engineering including leadership of enterprise-scale environments.
• Proven experience leading secure cloud and container platforms preferably in AWS-based environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • OpenShift Kubernetes Docker
  • Jenkins CloudBees Harness GitHub
  • Liquibase Ansible and infrastructure/configuration automation
  • Linux administration across RHEL CentOS Ubuntu Amazon Linux plus Windows Server environments
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2 EBS ELB S3 Lambda CloudWatch RDS DynamoDB Redshift Athena Glue DMS Kinesis SNS/SQS and CloudFormation.
• Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD automated testing release orchestration infrastructure as code and secure software delivery.
• Strong knowledge of application/container security vulnerability scanning code quality dependency management and operational hardening including tools such as SonarQube Fortify Twistlock CrowdStrike and Tenable.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic Grafana Prometheus Splunk and CloudWatch.
• Experience supporting environments with Oracle PostgreSQL and MySQL including coordinated application/database releases.
• Strong understanding of IAM SSO/OAuth2 configuration management change control and incident response in Agile environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: AWS Certified Solution Architect DevOps Engineer Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar
• Experience in federal regulated or other mission-critical with data infrastructure security controls and compliance standards such as FedRAMP FISMA or NIST 800-53.
• Experience supporting analytics platforms and data-intensive systems.
• Familiarity with Kong/OAuth2 Kafka EKS Cloudflare Selenium and JUnit.
• Experience supporting COTS-heavy ecosystems including Databricks Tableau and Informatica.

AboutANALYTICA:Analytica is a leading consulting and information technology solutions provider to public sector organizations supporting health civilian and national security missions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bethesda MD the company is an establishedSBAsmall businessthat hasbeen recognized byInc. Magazineeach of the past three years as one of the 250 fastest-growingcompanies in theU.S. Analytica specializes in providing software and systems engineering information management analytics & visualization agile project management and management consulting companyis appraised by theSoftware Engineering Institute (SEI) atCMMI Maturity Level 3and is anISO 9001:2008 certifiedprovider.

Analytica LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. As a federal contractor we comply with the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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