Platform Engineer
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Skills
About the role
Why Sabel Systems
Sabel Systems designs and delivers digital engineering ecosystems for DoD programs, enabling teams to connect data, systems, and personnel within secure, scalable environments. Our solutions empower programs to make faster decisions, close sustainment gaps, and meet the digital acquisition requirements.
Rather than simply proposing transformation, we implement and operate it at scale. Our method is clear: we orchestrate existing tools into a governing system of record, ensuring government ownership of infrastructure and traceable decisions. There’s no vendor lock, no proprietary baselines, and no need for ATO rebuilds during transitions.
Sabel Systems is redefining modern defense acquisition. If you seek to solve complex challenges at scale and want your work to directly accelerate military capability while reshaping the DoD’s approach to digital engineering, this is the place for you.
Complexity Simplified. Mission Amplified.
What You’ll Do
Cloud Infrastructure & System Administration
- Provision, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure resources, including virtual machines, containers, storage services, networks, and security groups.
- Design and implement secure cloud network architectures, including subnets, routing, VPN connectivity, firewalls, and access controls.
- Administer AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud environments supporting Digital Engineering workloads.
- Apply DoD security baselines, STIGs, and cybersecurity best practices across cloud-hosted systems.
- Perform operating system patching, upgrades, and maintenance activities to ensure system reliability and compliance.
- Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability using enterprise observability tools.
DevSecOps & CI/CD Platform Engineering
- Develop, maintain, and support CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and container platforms.
- Troubleshoot build failures, deployment issues, pipeline performance concerns, and integration challenges.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows and automate deployment processes.
- Support database integrations, API connectivity, and platform services required for automated software delivery.
- Contribute to the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation solutions.
Security & Compliance
- Implement and maintain Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across cloud and platform resources.
- Support vulnerability scanning, remediation efforts, and security incident response activities.
- Ensure compliance with DoD, NIST, and organizational cybersecurity requirements.
- Implement encryption, auditing, logging, and monitoring controls across the platform.
- Participate in security assessments and authorization activities as required.
Platform Operations & Customer Support
- Serve as a technical resource supporting platform users and project teams.
- Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve platform-related incidents and service requests.
- Engage with customers and stakeholders as a subject matter expert on platform capabilities, DevSecOps workflows, and cloud technologies.
- Support hosted engineering tool suites, including GitLab, Atlassian products, and other Digital Engineering services.
- Escalate complex technical issues and coordinate resolution across engineering teams.
Documentation, Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Develop and maintain operational runbooks, system documentation, architecture diagrams, and knowledge base content.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual operational and support activities.
- Contribute to training materials, user guides, and platform onboarding resources.
- Stay current with emerging cloud, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and Digital Engineering technologies.
- Support continuous process improvement initiatives across the platform ecosystem.
Qualifications
What You Bring
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, System Administration, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Strong communication skills for engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience managing cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and/or DoD cloud platforms preferred)
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar technologies.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or Podman.
- Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar tooling
- Certifications such as CompTIA Security+, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administrator, Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), Azure Administrator Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar are a plus
- Ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance eligibility.
Our Core Values
- Bias for Action: Decisive. Purposeful. Agile. We move with the speed of relevance to drive impact and progress.
- Integrity: Respect. Ethics. Transparency. We do what’s right and earn lasting trust.
- Delivery Excellence: Customer-obsessed. Mission-focused. Quality-driven. We deliver innovative outcomes that exceed expectations.
Our EVP Promise
Join Sabel Systems, where your contributions drive impact, your growth is continuously supported, and your well-being is at the center of how we work. Together we can build the future with purpose. Rewarding Impact. Building Futures Together.
Compensation
Compensation will be determined in partnership with the Hiring Manager and may vary based on factors such as contract and labor category alignment, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications or licenses, and geographic location.
Sabel Systems is committed to offering all employees a competitive benefits and compensation package that is comprehensive enough to meet their goals and needs. Our employees are our most valuable asset, and one of Sabel Systems largest financial investments is our benefits program. As a valued member of the organization, employees are provided with a host of benefits to include healthcare; financial assistance in the event of illness, injury, disability, loss of work, or death; health savings accounts; retirement plans; paid time off; paid holidays; education and training program reimbursement, to name a few.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabel Systems is an equal opportunity employer. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind across all employment practices within our organization. Sabel Systems participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabel Systems is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and ensuring an accessible application process for all candidates. Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process are encouraged to contact us at recruiting@sabelsystems.com for assistance.