• Location: Richardson, Texas
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #3418

Platform Engineer
Richardson, TX
Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Company Overview:
Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government.  Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees; we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission.  Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation’s toughest and most secure problems.  If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don’t look any further than Cornerstone Defense.

Job Responsibilities:

  • The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
  • You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
  • Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure
  • Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments
  • Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
  • Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
  • Provide operational support for the platform
  • Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher
  • Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.

Required Skills:

  • Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
  • Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
  • Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher

Desired Skills:

  • Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
  • Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS
  • Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
  • Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures
  • Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
  • Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization
  • Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
  • Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++)
  • Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days

Company Benefits:
Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs.  These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to:  A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.
 

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