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# Senior Software Engineer - Platform

- **Company:** Visionist, Inc
- **Location:** Laurel, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Elasticsearch, Identity and Access Management, Octopus Deploy, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, SSL Certificate Management, Grafana, Kubernetes, Route53, Kibana, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9073215/senior-software-engineer-platform

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline. (Additional 4 years of experience may substitute degree)

 - 12 years of experience in software development
 - Experience with AWS services such as EKS, Terraform, IAM, and Route 53
 - Experience with Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize
 - Experience with Docker/containerization
 - Experience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks
 - Experience configuring and using observability tooling such as the Elastic Stack (Kibana) and Grafana/Prometheus
 - Experience with certificate management and cloud-native security practices
 - Experience supporting cloud-native architecture and maintaining production software and infrastructure
 - Ability to take high-level mission goals and transform them into engineering outcomes
 - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
 - Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities

## Description

Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure used by the organization's AI capabilities (AWS, Kubernetes)

 - Translate high-level stakeholder goals into engineering outcomes and platform solutions
 - Work within ambiguous problem spaces and define structured solutions the team can execute against
 - Mentor engineers and grow development best practices, engineering standards, and technical governance for the team
 - Establish and enforce security best practices for infrastructure systems and data, including certificate and identity management


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