Senior Platform Engineer

N-ask, Incorporated
Fairfax, VA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
7 years minimum
Compensation
$104,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon S3 C++ (Programming Language) DevOps Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Identity and Access Management Python (Programming Language) Role-Based Access Control Ansible Prometheus
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Software Engineering Systems Integration Okta Grafana Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Amazon Relational Database Service Containerization Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology Functional Programming Terraform Docker Microservices

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes in production environments
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
  • Strong experience managing a scalable AWS infrastructure using core services (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda), following best practices
  • Experience building and supporting distributed microservices architectures
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
  • Experience with containerization tools (Docker, Helm)
  • Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Prometheus)
  • Experience working in Agile development environments
  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proficiency in Python and/or C++
  • Experience leading engineering teams or technical initiatives
  • Experience with large-scale cloud migrations or platform consolidation
  • Familiarity with tools such as ArgoCD, Ansible, or Kubernetes ecosystem tooling
  • Experience implementing RBAC and identity solutions (e.g., Keycloak)
  • Background in embedded systems, FPGA, or hardware/software integration
  • Experience working in regulated, government, or mission-driven environments

Benefits & conditions

At NASK, our employees are the backbone of our company, so we provide unsurpassed benefits and work-life balance. Employees are provided with individual offices and collaboration spaces to foster individual and team success. We have a casual yet professional work environment - employees work hard, and NASK offers a competitive benefits package that amounts to 50% of your annual base salary. This is split between a tax-qualified profit-sharing retirement plan that NASK contributes to (up to allowable IRS limits) and a cafeteria plan for benefits. For a comprehensive overview of our benefits, visit the benefits tab under our careers page: https://nask.world/company/careers, NASK Incorporated considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the role and responsibilities, work experience, education, training, certifications, geographic location, and market data. These are general guidelines and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.

About the company

Join NASK and help shape the next generation of digital signal processing solutions for the nation’s most critical missions.

About NASK

NASK has over twenty-five years of experience delivering innovative, mission-critical solutions to the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving the toughest challenges. Collaboration, innovation, and integrity define our culture - empowering engineers to create impactful solutions that advance national security objectives.

Our Culture

NASK builds resilient, scalable teams by pairing strong mentorship with meaningful leadership opportunities. The diversity of our missions creates constant opportunities to grow skills and take on new challenges. We value clear communication and collaboration, and we believe the best solutions can come from anyone on the team. Engineers at NASK are hands-on. We prioritize rapid delivery of working mission solutions and favor measurable, incremental progress over perfection. Engineers move the mission forward by writing code, collaborating with senior engineers, and working across teams to incorporate input from users, operators, and stakeholders., Our people are the core of who we are and what we do. NASK has two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to the tough technical challenges our partners in the Intelligence and Defense communities face. Our subject matter experts collaborate with junior developers and analysts, bringing fresh approaches to solve the toughest mission problems.

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