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# Cyber Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Hampton, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $166,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Bash Shell, Elasticsearch, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Kusto Query Language, Security Information and Event Management, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Cloudwatch, Terraform
- **Published:** June 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g7enis

## About the Role

Active clearance; experience in DoD IL4+ environments

Expert-level in 2 of 3 areas (working knowledge of the third):

AWS Engineering

Advanced VPC & IAM design; EC2, S3, EKS, CloudWatch/Trail, KMS

GovCloud preferred; network/API-level troubleshooting

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes administration (EKS/RKE2)

Helm, Terraform (modules/state), CI/CD pipelines

Container troubleshooting

Elastic SIEM Engineering

Elastic Stack administration

Detection rules, ingest pipelines, KQL

ILM and performance tuning

Python and/or Bash scripting

Strong communication and documentation skills

## Description

Day-to-day (~30% SIEM, ~30% Platform, ~30% AWS, ~10% Coordination):

Deploy and operate Elastic Security clusters across AWS GovCloud and on-prem environments

Build and maintain the underlying infrastructure-EKS clusters, Terraform modules, CI/CD

pipelines

Onboard log sources, build ingest pipelines, and create detection content that actually catches

things

Troubleshoot the full stack-from AWS networking to Kubernetes pods to Elasticsearch

performance

Work with SOC analysts to tune alerts, reduce noise, and improve detection coverage

Document architectures and participate in RMF/ATO activities (you won't own this, but you'll

contribute)

Coordinate with vendors, government stakeholders, and cross-functional teams


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