Principal Platform Engineer

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.

Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

The Platform Engineer shall have senior software engineering experience building and operating hybrid-infrastructure software platforms (Pivotal Cloud Foundry and AWS) at an Individual Contributor Level. A successful candidate has prior experience deploying Cloud Foundry and automating platform management at enterprise scale. The engineer shall have experience developing platform APIs that make common software operations scalable and repeatable. The engineer will have experience building continuous delivery pipelines. The engineer will feel comfortable maintaining the underlying services required to host containerized applications. The engineer will have experience responding to software outages and executing post mortem reviews including root cause analyses. The engineer will seek to maintain a high level of availability for all mission critical software systems. The engineer will be a principle to master level engineer capable of mentoring junior developers and engineers, or a standard level engineer capable of problem ownership and rapid growth. The engineer will also possess effective communication skills to interact with various stakeholders internal and external to the organization. The Platform Engineer shall meet at least all the minimum education/experience requirements for the applicable Labor Category identified below:

Principal Level Minimum Education/Experience Requirements:

• Five-plus (5+) years of experience leading teams building and developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Cloud Foundry, etc.

• Five-plus (5+) years of experience building production services using Cloud Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Five-plus (5+) years of experience building and sustaining developer platform services and APIs that scale in production.

• Three-plus (3+) years of experience designing or administering Identity and Access Lifecycle Management Operations and controls.

• Three-plus (3+) years of experience building and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines.

• Three-plus (3+) years of experience maintaining highly available and resilient production systems

• Resume demonstrates deep understanding of modern microservices architectures, design patterns, resiliency techniques, and optimizations.

• Manage, report, and facilitate certification of access for all in-scope resources (including SaaS, AWS, Azure, CSS managed applications, tools, and systems).

Minimum Education/Experience Requirements:

• Six-plus (6+) years of experience leading teams building and developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms including but not limited to Cloud Foundry, etc.

• Six-plus (6+) years of experience building and sustaining developer platform

services and APIs that scale in production.

• Six-plus (6+) years of experience building production services using Cloud

Infrastructure Providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Six-plus (6+) years of experience designing or administering Identity and Access

Lifecycle Management Operations and controls.

• Five-plus (5+) years of experience building and maintaining continuous delivery pipelines.

• Five-plus (5+) years of experience maintaining highly available and resilient production systems

• Resume demonstrates deep understanding of modern microservices architectures, design patterns, resiliency techniques, and optimizations.

• Manage, report, and facilitate certification of access for all in-scope resources (including SaaS, AWS, Azure, CSS managed applications, tools, and systems).

If non-local to Hanscom or Langley AFB, must be okay with regular travel to one of these locations

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.