Platform Engineer (Defense)

The role

You will design, build and run Kubernetes clusters on bare metal from the ground up. You will own the platform end to end including hardware bring-up, cluster lifecycle, security hardening and accreditation support.

What you will do

• Design, build and run Kubernetes clusters on bare metal from the ground up
• Own the platform end to end including hardware bring-up and cluster lifecycle
• Perform day-2 operations, security hardening and accreditation support
• Work with development and product teams to deliver mission software
• Bring up bare-metal hardware including out-of-band management and automated OS provisioning
• Build and run production Kubernetes on bare metal including networking, storage and ingress
• Automate infrastructure as code with Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu
• Build CI/CD pipelines that deliver software into disconnected environments
• Run platforms in production including monitoring, alerting, incident response and capacity planning
• Work with network and security teams to bring external data sources onto the platform

Required qualifications

• An active TS/SCI clearance
• A bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure or a related field
• A DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce certification for privileged users (such as Security+ CE)
• Willing to work onsite in Virginia 50% of the time
• Willing to provide on-call support during designated surge events

About the company

ASI is the frontier AI company that dynamically orchestrates critical infrastructure and defense assets. The company is headquartered in Boston with offices in Washington, DC, Denver, and Europe.