Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor focused on protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attacks and improving operational response times. The Senior Platform Engineer on the Connectivity team will design and build automation, tooling, and infrastructure components to onboard customer facilities into cloud-hybrid platform services, while leading complex work across platform engineering and infrastructure automation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of reusable tooling and configuration-driven workflows that automate the lifecycle management of Connectivity infrastructure
- Develop and maintain automation for Linux-based systems and network appliances, including secure configuration generation, system bootstrapping, software updates, and validation routines
- Translate operational onboarding and maintenance needs into scalable technical workflows that improve delivery speed, consistency, and quality across customer environments, including provisioning, secure channel establishment, validation, monitoring, and sustainment
- Build automation and infrastructure patterns that align with zero-trust principles, network segmentation requirements, access controls, and critical infrastructure security expectations
- Break down ambiguous infrastructure and workflow problems into clear technical designs, implementation plans, and well-scoped engineering tasks
- Produce clear design documentation, implementation guidance, and operational handoff materials. Help reinforce strong standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability within the team’s Connectivity engineering work
- Provide thoughtful code reviews, mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and help grow the team’s software-driven approach to Connectivity engineering
Skills
- 5+ years of experience building infrastructure, automation, or platform engineering solutions in complex environments
- Strong experience building infrastructure automation and tooling using disciplined engineering practices such as Git workflows, structured configuration data, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and code reviews
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, system configuration, package and service management, debugging, and scripting
- Solid understanding of network design, segmentation, VPNs, firewalls, encryption, and secure connectivity patterns
- Proven ability to independently solve ambiguous technical problems within a complex platform or infrastructure domain, drive solution design through implementation, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and support the growth of less experienced engineers
- Ability to travel quarterly for Program Management Reviews and team collaboration
- Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a DoD NIPR network account and Common Access Card (CAC)
- Must have, or be able to obtain, a Secret Clearance
- Experience in DoW, Air Force, or Federal contractor environments
- Experience supporting OT/ICS, critical infrastructure, industrial networks, or facility-edge environments
- Certifications such as CCNP/CCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, or similar
- Familiarity with network automation tools (ex. Ansible, Cisco DevNet, open-source routing tools)
- Based in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, or Brooklyn, NY area
- Experience working within DoD, Air Force, or Federal contractor environments
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator or equivalent technical certification
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, Life, Short-Term Disability, and AD&D insurance
- Medical travel coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401k matching
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