Platform Operations Engineer

As a Platform Operations Engineer, you will work with a team to ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of a full stack, containerized microservices platform. You will partner with a multidisciplinary team of systems engineers, developers, integrators, and system administrators to ensure uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low code tools like Appian.

What You Will Do

Your responsibilities will include system reliability and performance, monitoring and observability, incident response, defining and tracking reliability metrics, and participating in release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be part of a mission-focused, solutions-oriented team that values inclusion, innovation, collaboration, and continuous professional growth. You will have the opportunity to work on a high-impact project driving the design, development, and deployment of a modern technology stack supporting the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP).

Requirements

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience
• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph
• At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate))
• Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification
• Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments
• Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems
• Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS) and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak
• Demonstrated success in cross functional coordination and execution
• Strong communication skills and the ability to perform under pressure during incidents

Benefits

• Generous PTO plus 11 Federal Holidays
• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program