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# Junior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Clarity
- **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $46,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Web Servers, Identity and Access Management, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Workflow Management Systems, YAML, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Build Management, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk, Terraform, Software Version Control, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=10ffa9f861947b9c

## About the Role

* Education: A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree
 * 8140 Certification
 * 1 or more years experience in cloud technologies and infrastructure, CICD and pipelines, Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Specific Position/Technical Requirements

 * Experience with cloud technologies, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
 * Experience using web servers, application containers
 * Experienced in providing DevSecOps implementation using Jenkins, Gitlab, or similar tools
 * Experienced in developing, testing, and maintaining containerized applications.
 * Working knowledge of source version control, build/release tools and methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
 * Working knowledge of the Software Build process.
 * Shall have a passion for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for a large enterprise that consists of hundreds of applications.
 * Possess a strong security-first mindset.
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code supporting automation and orchestration within AWS or Azure/GCP cloud environments
 * Hands-on programming expertise in one or more of the following: Python, DSL, JSON, YAML
 * Experience working with automation and orchestration tools including one or more of the following: Jenkins, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
 * Cloud services experience including:
 * AWS services IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS



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