Senior Platform Engineer

Company: Volt
Location: Richardson
Posted on: April 24, 2025

Job Description:

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Volt is immediately hiring Senior Platform Engineer in Richardson, TX.


As Senior Platform Engineer, you will:

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform. Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities.
The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.

What You Will Do
--- Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure
--- Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments
--- Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
--- Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
--- Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
--- Provide operational support for the platform
--- Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher
--- Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.

This is a 12 Month full time Contract or Contract to hire opportunity.




This position requires Active TS/SCI with CI Poly Clearance.




The Ideal candidate will have:

--- Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience
--- Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
--- Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
--- Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher

Qualifications We Prefer
--- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g., Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
--- Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS
--- Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
--- Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures
--- Experience with scanning tools (E.g., Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
--- Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization
--- Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework
--- Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g., Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++)
--- Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain



Pay Range: $83.00 - $93.00 per hour.




*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.



Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.



Benefits: Volt offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).



Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Volt is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please email hr_dept@volt.com or call (866) -898-0005. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.



Volt does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. - 1324b. The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

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