Platform Security Engineer- Secret Clearance Required

Job Location: Aberdeen Proving Grounds MD

Security Clearance: Active Secret security clearance required

Citizenship: US Citizenship required

Onsite Expectations: 20% onsite at customer site (APG)

Make an Impact Where It Matters Most

At Sherpa 6 you wont just build secure cloud platformsyoull help shape the systems that protect our nation. Were looking for a Platform Security Engineer who brings deep security expertise strong networking fundamentals and modern cloud engineering practices to support mission-critical systems for a highly engaged customer.

If you enjoy designing secure architectures automating cloud infrastructure integrating agentic AI into DevSecOps workflows and solving complex technical problems that matter youll find this an exceptional opportunity. Youll join a collaborative high-trust engineering team where your decisions immediately drive real-world outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
• You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy tooling automation and cloud deployment approaches
• Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
• Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness ensuring regression performance and security testing gates are met.
• Create and maintain release documentation including schedules rollback plans and release notes.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency reliability and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build pipeline and deployment issues efficiently.
• Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions champion updates and guide architectural evolution.
• Research propose and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Clearly communicate status challenges and recommendations owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in DevOps Cloud Engineering build engineering or a similar discipline.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash PowerShell or Groovy.
• Excellent analytical problem-solving communication and teamwork skills.
• Hands-on cloud engineering in AWS (compute networking IAM storage) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform).
• Building CI/CD pipelines with security gates and scanning built in (SAST dependency and container scanning).
• Ability to take a set of security requirements and build a repeatable auditable process to maintain compliance implementing a control set such as NIST supporting the ATO (Authority to Operate) process for systems on a DoW network and demonstrating compliance to DoW auditors.
• Strong networking fundamentals the layers how they interact and hands-on experience securing them.
• Experience implementing role-based least-privilege access.
• Continuous security monitoring access logging vulnerability scanning and anomaly detection.

Nice to Have

• Designing and automating secure MLOps pipelines data ingestion and transformation through model deployment.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at scale multi-site policy enforcement monitoring and failover.
• Automating SDN configuration for distributed or fielded systems.
• Secure configuration management and update automation for edge/fielded deployments.
• Experience in a classified / ATOd government test or integration environment.

About Sherpa 6

At Sherpa 6 we love to solve problems and provide the best solutions for our customers. Our approach to a problem is to find a user-focused and design-driven solution that is simple yet functional and effective. We are a group of enthusiastic forward-thinkers who are excited to build amazing solutions with bleeding-edge technology. We hire people who are forward thinkers passionate about what they do love to collaborate and want to constantly learn. We enjoy what we do and were not afraid to put the extra effort in to accomplish the mission; call us Sherpas. As a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business we know what it means to serve. We have made it our mission to be the leaders in solutions that protect and give our Warfighters the edge they need when put into harms way.

Background/Drug Screening

Successful completion of a pre-employment background & drug screening will be required as a condition of hire.

ADA

Sherpa 6 will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990.

EEO/AA

Sherpa 6 does not discriminate based on race color national origin sex religion age disability sexual orientation gender identity veteran status height weight or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental vision health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.

Salary Range

The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations years of experience and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location prior experience relevant skills education and certifications.