Sr. Platform Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The Platform team is building the premier global intelligence platform to deliver timely, relevant, and actionable information to customers. As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will create innovative public and private cloud solutions for Amazon Web Services and C2S customer environments. As one of the team, you will be engaged in design and implementation efforts and you will directly be involved in the successful automated deployment of solutions that meet our customers business objectives. Your contribution matters! Meeting the customer's objectives is no easy task, but you possess strong hands on experience and a wide range of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, and high-performance computing technologies to get the job done. You will have a flexible working schedule and be willing to work at our client site as well as our Herndon office and from home. We emphasize a culture of respect, trust, and growth: you will feel comfortable sharing and receiving ideas with your teammates, and through our shared experience, we all become better developers and mentors. We are NOT a "work hard, play hard " group. We are a "work smart " group, and you can play how you like on your own time. Are you ready to build the future of Global Intelligence with us?

What We Do

• Hold daily standups to ensure forward momentum and eliminate roadblocks
• Reduce development friction through automation
• Continuous Integration - Applications are automatically rebuilt and deployed after every merge
• Peer review code: promotes employee growth and knowledge sharing
• Offer a flexible work schedule
• Allow you to select your own development tools
• Most importantly: Deliver working software to our users

Who You Are

• An experienced AWS infrastructure engineer. You are experienced in CloudFormation or Terraform. Infrastructure-as-Code is extremely important to you.
• Fluent in Linux and at least one scripting language (bash, Python, etc)
• A driven communicator. On the Platform team, we communicate through video conferences, Github, JIRA, and Slack. You are driven to ensure you share (and receive) context from your team and stakeholders. You are comfortable speaking with customers and end-users and understand that important tasks are rarely done alone.
• Working knowledge of container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) technologies
• Desire to troubleshoot systems in a complex environment
• Self-taught learner. You thrive when learning and discovering techniques to further your game and enjoy sharing your newly-sought knowledge with teammates.
• Detail Oriented. You enjoy collaborating with others and respond positively to multiple viewpoints.
• Geospatial Experience. You have some hands-on experience with a web-based mapping tool like Google Maps, OpenLayers, Leaflet.js, Mapbox, etc. You have worked on projects developing software to manipulate raster and multispectral imagery.