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# Platform Engineer, Senior

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $77,600.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), VMware ESX Servers, Identity and Access Management, Subnetting, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Linux System Administration, Networking Basics, Network Connections, Routing, Ansible, Storage Virtualization, VMware VSphere, Digital Twin, Data Processing, Cloud Platform System, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Backend, Cloudformation, SC Clearance, Containerization, Tanzu, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Rancher, Modeling and Simulation, Vcenter, Terraform, Vmware
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.boozallen.com/jobs/JobDetail?jobId=132508

## About the Role

* 3+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or systems engineering
 * 2+ years of experience administering VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter
 * 2+ years of experience deploying and operating workloads in AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, and EKS or ECS
 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
 * Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in cloud or on-premises environments
 * Experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals, including subnets, routing, DNS, firewalls, and security groups
 * Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
 * Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience with AWS GovCloud or other regulated cloud environments
 * Experience with VMware NSX, vSAN, or VMware Tanzu
 * Experience with Rancher, RKE2, or hardened Kubernetes distributions
 * Experience building hybrid connectivity between on-premises and AWS, including Direct Connect, VPN, or Transit Gateway
 * Experience operating in disconnected, air-gapped, or bandwidth-constrained environments
 * Experience applying STIGs and supporting DoD ATO or RMF processes
 * Experience supporting GPU-backed or compute-intensive simulation workloads
 * Secret clearance
 * VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV), AWS Solutions Architect - Associate, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification

## Description

Everyone is trying to "harness the cloud," but not everyone can make it work alongside the on-premises infrastructure that real missions still depend on. As a Platform Engineer, you'll build and operate the hybrid infrastructure behind a Digital Twin and Modeling & Simulation platform for military test ranges, spanning AWS GovCloud and VMware-based on-premises and disconnected environments.

You'll design, automate, and maintain the networking, storage, and Kubernetes foundations that let simulation, visualization, and data processing workloads run consistently whether they sit in the cloud or at the range. You'll work closely with DevOps engineers, backend developers, and solution architects so the platform stays secure, repeatable, and ready for accreditation in regulated DoD environments. In this role, you'll solve hard hybrid-cloud problems, from workload portability and network connectivity to hardening and lifecycle management. You'll also grow your skills across both enterprise virtualization and cloud-native technologies.