Senior Platform Engineer

Non-SCA, Full-time Rockville, MD, US Salary Range: $98,000.00 To $163,000.00 Annually

RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Build and maintain a self‑service application delivery platform for AWS workloads. Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards. Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, and related AWS services. Define the YAML‑based application contract used by application teams. Implement promotion workflows, approvals, drift prevention, and environment separation. Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths. Design and develop end‑to‑end Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy to automate seamless code promotion from development through to production environments. Build Terraform modules and root‑module compositions for multi‑service applications. Support ECS Fargate and optional AWS capabilities such as S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM. Standardize build, test, deploy, and approval workflows. Establish Terraform state and environment management practices. Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams. Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred. Bachelor’s degree or additional FOUR (4) years experience in lieu of degree. Minimum of SEVEN (7) years Platform Development experience. Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch. Hands‑on Terraform experience, including module design and backend/state management. Jenkins pipeline expertise, preferably shared libraries and multibranch pipelines. Experience creating reusable platform abstractions for multiple services. Good scripting ability in Bash or Python. Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, and release governance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services. Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion. Experience with multi‑account AWS design. Familiarity with event‑driven architectures and asynchronous patterns. Experience onboarding application teams to shared tooling. Experience supporting ServiceNow‑based low‑code applications. #J-18808-Ljbffr FM Talent Source