Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Platform Engineer will develop and manage infrastructure for simulation and test environments, enabling continuous integration and testing of flight software and hardware. The role focuses on building scalable, automated, and containerized platforms to accelerate development cycles and improve system reliability.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Provision, deploy, and maintain infrastructure to support simulation workflows, including high-performance computing (HPC), software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- Leverage infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to enable scalability and resource optimization
- Leverage automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage infrastructure efficiently
- Leverage containerization and orchestration to enable modern, scalable, and resilient application deployments
- Work closely with developers/engineers to design, implement, and manage continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to improve iteration speed and flight system reliability
- Configure network hardware, manage cloud resources, and ensure network security and performance
- Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering
- Expertise in DevOps best practices
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Experience with Linux-based systems
- Experience with one or more CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance.
- Expertise in IaaS (AWS and GCP)
- Expertise in IaC (Terraform)
- Expertise in database administration and network administration
- Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
- Experience with embedded systems
- Experience with SIL, HIL, or robotics testbeds
- Familiarity with Linux-based real-time systems
- Familiarity with cloud-based/distributed HPC
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
- This position requires in office presence.