Senior Platform Engineer

POSITION: Senior Platform Engineer

WORK LOCATION: Remote

JOB CATEGORY: Intelligence

JOB TYPE: Full Time

REQUISITION ID: EM51-001

CITIZENSHIP: United States Citizen

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Up to 10%

EM Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. EM provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

EM Technologies, Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support the Air Force to help in developing and operating modernized applications that are used daily by the warfighter. This is an exciting new initiative where the Air Force is mirroring Silicon Valley processes and capabilities to quickly deploy new capabilities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the foundational AWS GovCloud infrastructure (networking, IAM/account structure, VPC design, storage) underpinning the Data Operations platform, ensuring it scales securely and reliably as new data sources and workloads are onboarded.
• Design, provision, and operate the platform's core managed data infrastructure - Amazon MSK (Kafka), AWS EMR (Spark), Aurora, S3, and Glue - sizing, scaling, and tuning these services to meet performance and cost requirements.
• Own the Kubernetes platform itself (cluster architecture, node groups/autoscaling, upgrades, cluster networking, and cluster-level security posture) that the Data Engineering and DevSecOps teams build and deploy on top of.
• Build and maintain the platform's Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) modules and remote state management practices, providing a shared, reusable foundation other engineers provision against.
• Establish and maintain platform reliability practices - monitoring, alerting, incident response/on-call rotation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery/backup procedures - for the underlying infrastructure.
• Own cost visibility and optimization across the platform's AWS GovCloud footprint, right-sizing infrastructure and identifying savings opportunities.
• Provide self-service, "golden path" tooling and documentation that allow Data Engineers and DevSecOps Engineers to provision and operate against the platform safely and consistently.
• Own assigned infrastructure tasking independently - translate well-articulated requirements into working infrastructure - with oversight and guidance available from leadership as needed and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional infrastructure/platform engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of cloud infrastructure in production.
• Strong experience with AWS infrastructure (networking, IAM, VPC design) and operating managed data services such as MSK (Kafka), EMR (Spark), Aurora, S3, and Glue at the infrastructure level.
• Strong experience owning Kubernetes cluster architecture and operations (e.g., EKS), including node/cluster scaling, upgrades, and cluster-level networking and security.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), including module design and remote state management for a shared platform used by multiple teams.
• Experience with platform reliability practices - monitoring/alerting, on-call incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery/backup procedures.
• Proficiency with scripting/automation (Python, Bash) for infrastructure tooling.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently against well-articulated tasking, with oversight and guidance available, and to mentor less experienced engineers.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance at the appropriate level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community programs, particularly Platform One or other DoD software factory environments.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud specifically.
• FinOps/cost-optimization experience across a multi-service AWS environment.
• Experience building self-service/golden-path platform tooling for other engineering teams.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA).
• Prior experience mentoring or informally leading a small technical team.
• Experience with, or familiarity with, Kubernetes deployment/orchestration automation tools such as Harpoon - the toolset this team is expected to use - for low-code, multi-cloud cluster provisioning and container deployment.

To Apply for this Position:

You must have the Minimum Qualifications in your resume to be selected as a candidate.

The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. EM considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

EM anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require EM to shorten or extend the application window.

EM is 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, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. EM provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

As part of the federal government’s transition to the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Continuous Vetting framework, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is expanding enrollment in the FBI Rap Back program for cleared industry personnel beginning April 1, 2026.

Rap Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) is a service provided by the FBI that allows authorized agencies to receive notifications if there are updates to an individual’s criminal history record while they hold a security clearance. This supports continuous vetting of cleared personnel.

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• FBI Privacy Act Notice

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• Noncriminal Justice Applicant’s Privacy Rights

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