Cloud Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs that use state of the art technologies to deliver enterprise infrastructure services essential to the safe and efficient operation of the largest, safest, and most complex aviation system in the world.  We are seeking  smart, passionate, and motivated people to join our proven team in a challenging and rewarding work environment where you will be actively engaged at the intersection of technology and operations enhancing our nation’s aviation system.  If you want to be involved in acquiring, implementing, and managing the communications and information solutions to achieve our nation’s aviation vision, this is the job for you!

 

This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA’s highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy.

 

Build, harden, and operate containerized SFDPS components on Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent Red Hat-based container platforms; implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging necessary for FAA Efficiency Critical requirements and cloud migration.

 

Primary responsibilities

• Design and implement container orchestration patterns in OpenShift/Kubernetes (deployments, Operators, Helm charts).
• Build and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/ArgoCD) with automated testing and promotion workflows.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible) for reproducible environments in the FAA cloud.
• Implement observability: metrics (Prometheus), logging, tracing, and dashboards.
• Work with security and compliance teams to align deployments with FedRAMP/FISMA/FAA baseline requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analyses; drive corrective actions to improve availability and maintainability.
• Participate in Agile delivery: mentor junior engineers and contribute to sprint planning and backlog grooming.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience. Substitutions: Any subsitutions are subject to further customer review and approvals
  • Or Highschool Degree and 15 years of professional experience.
  • or Associates degree and 11 years of professional experience.
  • or Masters degree and 6 years of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience managing containerized applications, cloud platforms and software development background including robust experience with Java in building cloud-native and scalable services.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET backend development
• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift or RHEL-based container environments.
• Solid experience with C and C++ for performance-critical or legacy components—ability to read, maintain, and improve native system code.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Groovy) used to enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring automation, and incident response.
• Contribute actively to code reviews, application performance tuning, and troubleshoot complex multi-language application stacks.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes primitives.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog).
• Experience operating in a FedRAMP-authorized or government cloud environment preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Comfortable collaborating across cross-functional Agile teams.

Desired Qualifications

• CKA/CKAD, RHCE, RHCA, or relevant cloud certs (AWS/Azure/GCP Gov).
• Experience with service meshes (Istio) and Kubernetes Operators.
• Prior FAA program support experience or work on ATM/aviation systems.
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Overview

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI and Noblis MSD, take on some of the nation’s toughest challenges, delivering advanced solutions to our customers’ most critical missions. We bring together leading scientific, engineering, and management expertise in a culture grounded in objectivity and collaboration, ensuring our work creates lasting impact across federal missions.

 

We work with a broad range of government agencies in the defense, intelligence, and federal civilian sectors. Learn more and find opportunities at careers.noblis.org

 

Why Work at Noblis

 

At Noblis, we share a passion for excellence and innovation, and we create an environment where people can do meaningful work while maintaining the balance that keeps them energized and fulfilled. We seek out individuals with a natural curiosity and desire to collaborate and learn. We believe our people are our greatest strength, and we consistently seek exceptionally skilled, mission‑driven professionals who care deeply about doing work that enriches lives and makes our nation safer.

 

Noblis has earned numerous workplace awards for our culture, our commitment to employee well‑being, and our dedication to meaningful, impactful work. We also maintain a drug‑free workplace.

 

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, pregnancy/childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran or military status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

 

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us.

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Total Rewards

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

 

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis’ total compensation package.

Posted Salary Range

USD $86,800.00 - USD $135,625.00 /Yr.