Platform Engineer 700
Freedom Technology Solutions Group
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Description
Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a Software Developer to add to our Platform Mission Applications Team. The Platform Mission Applications team members are responsible for integrating, deploying and ensuring Continuous Delivery (CD) of Mission Partner Mission Applications across all the fabrics utilizing tools such as Istio, Kiali, K9s, Grafana, Keycloak, Gitlab, Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD. We develop deployment and integration manifests used to create required kubernetes objects, resources, policies, and components in order to deploy Mission Partners applications into our ecosystem.
What You'll Do
The Platform Mission Applications team members are responsible for integrating, deploying and ensuring Continuous Delivery (CD) of Mission Partner Mission Applications across all the fabrics utilizing tools such as Istio, Kiali, K9s, Grafana, Keycloak, Gitlab, Kustomize, Helm and ArgoCD. We develop deployment and integration manifests used to create required kubernetes objects, resources, policies, and components in order to deploy Mission Partners applications into our ecosystem.
Platform Mission Apps Development & Engineering (MADE): This team focusses on automation development and sustainment (i.e. GitLab Mission Partner self service deployment pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code). MADE also develops and maintains the Mission Apps Padawan site. Platform Mission Apps Customer Empowerment (MACE): This team focuses on Mission Partner onboarding (e.g. mission manifest project development/integration, mission-bootstrap integration), configuration management sustainment, and catalog sustainment.
Platform Mission Apps Tier 3 (MAT3, read "MATE"): This team focuses on Mission Partner Tier 3 support to include SOP/troubleshooting guide sustainment and sustaining Mission Applications infrastructure (e.g. mTLS gateways, third party tools, and Istio/Kyverno configurations and policies).
Key Technologies:
- Linux
- Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ...)
- AWS Services
- GitLab
- Data Types: Structured and Unstructured, Parquet, JSON, XML, etc.
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
- Kustomize and Helm
Required Qualifications:
- IAT or IAM Level II DoD 8570 Certification
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Ability to access secure facilities with SIPR & JWICS
- Experience with microservice orchestration, with a heavy emphasis on Kubernetes
- Experience with Kustomize and Helm
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with GitOps and CI/CD, with a heavy emphasis on Gitlab
- 5+ years of experience in application deployment and release management.
- 3+ years of experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD).
- Experience with infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash).
- Strong understanding of application deployment strategies (blue/green, canary).
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with advanced application and network troubleshooting, database administration, and PKI management
- Experience with cloud providers, with an emphasis on AWS services.
- Experience with Agile Methodologies.
- Experience with various forms of automation, including simple batch scripting, pipeline automation, Kubernetes operators, and infrastructure-as-code (including terraform and ansible)
- Experience with cloud-native application architectures.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
- Experience with security scanning and vulnerability management tools.
- Experience with platform engineering concepts.
About this role
Freedom Technology Solutions Group's Platform Mission Applications Team is building and maintaining the infrastructure that deploys mission-critical applications across their ecosystem. You'd work with Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm, and GitLab to develop deployment manifests, manage continuous delivery pipelines, and support three specialized sub-teams: one focused on automation and infrastructure-as-code, another on partner onboarding and configuration, and a third providing Tier 3 support for infrastructure and troubleshooting.
This role demands substantial hands-on experience—at least five years in application deployment and release management, three-plus years with containerization and CI/CD tools, and deep familiarity with Linux, Kubernetes, and GitOps practices. You'll need an active TS/SCI clearance and IAT/IAM Level II DoD 8570 certification, plus the ability to access secure facilities. Beyond the core requirements, experience with service mesh technologies, AWS, infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible, and monitoring platforms like Prometheus and Grafana will strengthen your candidacy.
This is an in-office contract position in St. Louis. Freedom offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits including matching 401k and fully paid medical coverage, paid training and tuition reimbursement, and a stated commitment to work-life balance and career growth.
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