Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required

Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required

Job Locations

US-Remote

Job ID

2026-13823

# of Openings

1

Category

Information Technology

Benefit Type

Salaried High Fringe/Full-Time

Overview

LMI is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to provide cloud engineering support for multiple products that serve a United States Government customer.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

Design and implement the infrastructure that applications will run on.

• select the appropriate hardware and software components, configure the networking and storage resources and create security policies.
• Ensure all new software functions smoothly across various programs and platforms, including mobile systems.
• Automate the testing, deployment and configuration management processes
• Maintain the underlying infrastructure including hardware, software and storage resources to ensure the infrastructure's reliability, scalability and security.
• Maintain the overall health and stability of the applications that run on their organization's platform.
• Meet with managers and representatives of Government to discuss software issues and brainstorm methods of solving existing problems.
• Write original code and update existing code, ensuring that all code meets program requirements.
• Perform intensive testing of all new and existing programs to ensure they are free of errors and function as intended.
• Update and debug existing systems to ensure a smooth user experience and a uniform look across a variety of platforms.
• Keep up to date on the newest technological innovations in the field and be ready to apply relevant innovations to our software systems.

Qualifications

Required:

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• 5+ years of experience experience planning, analyzing, designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining software applications for an enterprise level system.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience architecting and developing software/infrastructure for scalable, secure, and distributed systems on Hybrid or Multi-cloud environments.
• Experience using GitLab for CI/CD and automated deployments.
• Experience with writing Terraform, Ansible playbooks, Linux automation scripts, rudimentary APIs or automation scripts to interact with existing APIs, automated provisioning, Infrastructure as code and software development programming languages (Python, Java, GO).
• Strong familiarity using Linux toolsets to support and analyze network related topics and issues.
• Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience managing, administrating, configuring, deploying and maintaining environments and system integration tools, including Kubernetes, Rancher, Helm, & Grafana.
• Knowledge of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics at the container level with APM or other tools, including Splunk, ELK, and Prometheus.
• Knowledge IDAM requirements and technologies, including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, hardware tokens, OAuth 2.0, or OIDC.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (SEC+ or other)

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Knowledge of the government software development process and technologies
• Previous GovTech experience
• Previous experience obtaining an ATO for a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and working with Agile teams
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Target salary range: $131,161.74 - $227,168.42

Disclaimer

The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.

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LMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. LMI is committed to the fair treatment of all and to our policy of providing applicants and employees with equal employment opportunities. LMI recruits, hires, trains, and promotes people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, protected veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact accommodations@lmi.org

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LMI is committed to the fair treatment of all and to our policy of providing applicants and employees with equal employment opportunities. LMI recruits, hires, trains, and promotes people without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other factors protected by applicable law. We welcome applications for employment from qualified disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam era, and other covered veterans.