PLATFORM ENGINEER (CI POLYGRAPH REQUIRED)

NorthHill Technology Resources has an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer to support a Federal Program in Mclean, VA. This is a direct-hire role with our client, a highly-respected firm in the Intelligence Community. The ideal candidate will have 3-6 years of relevant experience. Due to the Nature of the work, a TS/SCI Clearance and CI Polygraph is required.

Platform Engineer

· Experience with Kubernetes or derivatives. Our platform is OpenShift Platform Plus so OpenShift would be helpful.

· DevOps background. Ansible or other automation language, git, python 

· Some development background/experience.

· Experience with RHEL 

· Strong understanding of networking 

o We aren’t looking for a network engineer, but we will expect that we could, for example, ask the platform engineer to look at the OVN-Kubernetes topology and, with some study and access to a live system, understand the network flow 

· Experience building out datacenter architectures. You do not need to have been the lead, but you should understand things such as out of band management networks, management interfaces, patch cycles, etc. 

· Ability to independently self-educate. This project spans a huge swath of technologies, and no one is expected to come into the project knowing everything. Successful candidates will be expected that armed with the internet you can independently identify those things you do not know, teach yourself, and come back with answers. 

· Current TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Preferred Experience

· Background/familiarity with Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be seen as a huge plus. The project is deploying OpenShift AI so experience with it would be ideal. 

· Familiarity/experience with Dell PowerScale 

· Experience with Keycloak 

· Experience with Active directory 

· Experience with Container repositories. Ideally, hands on with Quay as that is what this project is using. 

· Experience building PKI infrastructure 

· Experience with software defined networking 

· Experience implementing NIST/STIGs 

· Experience with MinIO 

· Experience with Ceph (or other software defined storage)