Senior Platform Engineer – Kubernetes/OpenShift (Secret)

TITLE: Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes/OpenShift

LOCATION: Remote

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Active DoD Secret Clearance

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-time

TRAVEL: Up to 5% to San Diego, CA

POSITION SUMMARY

Modern Government Solutions (MGS) is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to support the continued evolution of our SAP 2.0 platform. This role combines platform engineering, automation, infrastructure, and containerized application operations within a modern Kubernetes and OpenShift ecosystem.

The ideal candidate enjoys building reliable deployment pipelines, automation tooling, and scalable platform services while supporting production operations, platform security, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. This is a highly collaborative engineering role working across SAP, infrastructure, networking, and security teams to support mission-critical environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES (not limited to):

• Design, build, and enhance the SAP 2.0 platform for containerized SAP workloads and supporting platform services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, validation, release, deployment, and promotion of SAP platform components.
• Create and support hardened container images, Dockerfiles, runtime patterns, and deployment artifacts for SAP services and associated tooling.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, OpenShift templates, and YAML-based configuration across environments.
• Write and maintain automation and support tooling in Bash and Go for provisioning, startup orchestration, health checks, troubleshooting, and platform operations.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot workloads in Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Azure Local, and Azure Kubernetes Service environments.
• Work closely with SAP, infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to ensure reliable service delivery and production support.
• Support operational excellence through documentation, runbooks, standards, observability, and incident response readiness.
• Help define scalable, secure, and repeatable engineering practices for hybrid and cloud-connected SAP platform deployments.
• Travel to San Diego, CA for planned onsite collaboration sessions approximately three times per year, typically consisting of one-week visits (up to 15 onsite days annually).

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Must possess an active Department of Defense (DoD) Secret security clearance.
• Strong experience building platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, and internal engineering tooling.
• Strong Bash scripting skills for automation, operational support, and platform administration. Exposure to Go development for automation tooling or platform utilities is preferred.
• Experience developing and maintaining Dockerfiles, container images, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and YAML-based configuration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift, including workload deployment, platform operations, and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
• Experience deploying and supporting workloads in Azure Local and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments.
• Understanding of Kubernetes platform components and container lifecycle concepts, including persistent storage, secrets, ingress, services, init containers, and sidecar patterns.
• Strong Linux administration experience, preferably within Red Hat or RHEL-based environments.
• Strong networking and infrastructure troubleshooting skills, including DNS, TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience supporting SAP platform workloads, including SAP HANA, SAP infrastructure, or SAP Basis-adjacent environments, is highly preferred.
• Understanding of secure platform design, production operations, and enterprise support practices within hybrid or cloud-connected environments.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with containerized SAP landscapes and modernization of legacy SAP deployment models.
• Experience with GitOps, policy validation, automated promotion between environments, and release governance.
• Exposure to security hardening, compliance automation, and enterprise platform standards.
• Experience supporting stateful workloads and persistent storage patterns in Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience with platform observability, monitoring, logging, or incident response tooling in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Experience writing clear technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, and SAP functional teams.

*Applicants selected will be United States citizens and may be subject to a government security investigation for access to classified information.*

ABOUT US

At MGS, we believe a people-first culture corresponds to organizational success through a commitment to excellence, integrity, inclusion, and an attitude that welcomes challenges meets demands, sustains growth, and drives innovation. We provide expert mission-first technical and programmatic services and solutions for the US intelligence community, the US Department of Defense, and other governmental agencies. We create people-first organizational cultures where employees feel needed in the system, not a system that needs employees. We provide you with long-term career opportunities centrally focused on our core value system: inclusion, integrity, and a commitment to excellence.

MGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.