Sr. Principal Platform Engineer

Clarityinnovates · Springfield, VA · Engineering

Posted 2026-10-23

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Role Description:

The Platform Engineer will own the engineering practices and technical infrastructure required to build, deploy, operate, monitor, and continuously improve the team's AI and software capabilities. The position will have particular responsibility for integration and will establish automated development and deployment pipelines supporting secure delivery into the operating environment.

The engineer will implement containerized infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated security controls, observability, configuration management, and production operations. The role will work closely with the Cloud Architect and Security/AI Assurance Engineer to establish a secure, repeatable software delivery environment.

Technical Skills:

DevSecOps

CI/CD

GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins or equivalent

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Cloud platforms

Container orchestration

Container security

Secrets management

Configuration management

Automated security testing

Software supply-chain security

SBOM

Application observability

Prometheus/Grafana

Logging platforms

Python/Bash

Git

API integration

High-availability architectures

Disaster recovery

Salary Range: $133,500 - $227,000

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