Volt is immediately hiring Platform Engineer in Richardson, Texas

As Platform Engineer you will:

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  You will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure.
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  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.
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  Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
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  Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions.
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  Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
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  Provide operational support for the platform.

This is a 12 Month full time Contract opportunity.

The ideal candidate will have:

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI with CI Poly

Technical Skills/Experience Required:

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  2+ years of related work experience.
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  Administrative experience with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred).
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  Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.
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  Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.

Technical Skills/Experience Preferred:

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  Experience with COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
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  Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
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  Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++).
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  Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures.
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  Notional Experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization.
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  Notional Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher.
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  Notional Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS.
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  Notional Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
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  Notional Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).

Education Requirements:

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  Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics.

Certification Preferred:

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  Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days.

Pay Rate: $60.00 - $69.00 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.

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