Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

The Software Engineer will join an agile engineering team responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput services for a core mission analytic platform. In this role, you will modernize and sustain critical application codebases, automate containerized packaging and orchestration pipelines, and implement infrastructure as code. Beyond individual technical contributions, you will serve as a technical resource across the team, providing hands-on developer support, conducting peer reviews, and unblocking teammates to maintain mission momentum.

1. Core Backend Engineering:Proven experience developing, debugging, maintaining, and updating enterprise application code in Java (or C++/Go) across modern development frameworks. + Containerization Packaging: Demonstrated hands-on experience building, optimizing, and securing OCI-compliant container images using Docker. + Container Orchestration Deployment: Direct experience configuring and deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters, including creating and managing Helm charts. + Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Practical proficiency in automating cloud or on-premise infrastructure provisioning using Terraform. + Collaborative Developer Support Mentorship: Strong track record of providing direct technical support to engineering teammates, conducting code reviews, and resolving integration roadblocks in an agile environment.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 14+ years of professional experience in data science, NLP, or software engineering OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 18+ years of specialized technical experience in lieu of a degree.

, Desired Skills

1. Java Ecosystem Modernization: Experience refactoring legacy Java applications to modern LTS versions (e.g., Java 17/21) and microservice frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Quarkus).
2. CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Practical experience configuring continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines using platforms such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
3. Cluster Workload Monitoring: Familiarity with cluster observability and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, or Fluentbit.
4. Mission Systems Security Hardening: Experience applying container hardening standards (e.g., distroless base images, CVE scanning via Trivy) and aligning with mission security guidelines (e.g., DISA STIGs).
5. Distributed Data Analytics Platforms: Familiarity with message brokers or distributed data engines (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, or Elasticsearch) within cloud-native analytic architectures.

The annual base salary range for this role is $209,000-$247,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things., If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team,

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.

PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It’s flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS? Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.