Senior Platform Engineering

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MITRE Mission Computing is a new organization that bridges the gap between Mission and Technology and helps enable MTIRE projects to focus on their work, without worrying about compliance and the underlying platform infrastructure. This is an opportunity for experienced platform engineers who are highly motivated, innovative, and proactive and interested in owning and maintaining their work to enable the rest of MITRE and sponsors.

MITRE Mission Computing is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the foundational systems that enable critical national security work across MITRE’s Federally Funded Research and Development Centers. This is a broad, high-ownership role at the intersection of Kubernetes platform engineering and cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for the reliability and security of the compute platforms that power internal tools and the development and production environments that enable engineering, research, and mission teams to move faster with confidence, while guiding those teams on how best to adopt and utilize what you provide.

You will operate in a high-stakes environment defined by novel problems and real constraints, including CMMC compliance, high availability, and cyber resilience. In this environment you will provide the platforms that enable engineering teams of varying skill maturities to deliver innovative solutions and AI-enabled capabilities to MITRE’s U.Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent of related education and work experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5 years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent) with demonstrated hands-on experience designing, building, operating, and evolving production Kubernetes platforms (cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, observability, and security) or equivalent internal platform infrastructure.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience (preferably AWS, including GovCloud or other regulated environments)
• Experience with multi-cluster, multi-tenant, or hybrid-cloud Kubernetes architectures
• Experience authoring and operating CI/CD pipelines that support platform and application workloads, including integration with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps workflows
• Demonstrated ability to build reliable, secure compute platforms that other engineering teams depend on
• Ability to work effectively amid novel problems, shifting constraints, and multi-stakeholders
• Strong communication skills with the ability to guide and influence engineering teams on platform best practices
• Deep experience operating mixed Linux and Windows environments at scale, including cross-platform identity, security controls, and platform services that support both ecosystems
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability stacks (e.g., Grafana, Loki, Alloy, and related logging pipelines), including integration with incident management tools
• Experience operating platforms that engineering teams rely on to take workloads into production, including supporting their use of platform-provided monitoring, alerting, and incident management capabilities
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing senior government or senior customer stakeholders on status, critical decisions, and technical recommendations
• S Government issued Security Clearance. S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days per week on-site in McLean, VA, Bedford, MA, San Diego, CA or Colorado Springs, CO

Experience with including service mesh, network policy enforcement, policy-as-code, runtime security detection, and automated response with multi-cluster, multi-tenant, or hybrid-cloud Kubernetes architectures

Experience operating platforms in CMMC or high-side environments

Demonstrated experience taking software from development into production and supporting it under real customer utilization

Background building internal developer platforms, self-service interfaces, or abstractions that improve team velocity

Familiarity with AI/ML workloads, GPU orchestration, or enabling AI-enabled capabilities on shared platforms

Deep knowledge of container security, policy-as-code, and zero-trust patterns

Track record of driving CVE remediation at scale across container platforms and virtual machines, with the ability to analyze underlying CWEs to prevent recurring classes of weaknesses

Track record of mentoring or enabling other teams to effectively utilize shared platforms

Experience designing and operating platforms where tenant teams own their application-level incident response and vulnerability mitigation, while the platform team owns the underlying reliability, observability, and escalation paths

Track record of enabling other teams to confidently operate their services in production through clear platform interfaces, runbooks, and shared incident management practices

Active Secret Clearance

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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