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Platform Operations Engineer

Base-2 Solutions
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Bethesda, MD, USA
Oct 02, 2026
Position Summary Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting the design, development, and deployment of a modern technology stack for the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role supports the mission to centralize and standardize the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. The position involves ensuring availability, reliability, and performance of a full stack, containerized microservices platform and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Essential Duties and
    • Ensure uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low code tools like Appian.
    • Leverage monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
    • Lead triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post incident reviews.
    • Define and track reliability metrics such as SLIs and SLOs.
    • Participate in SAFe Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination. Required
Qualifications
  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent
experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master's; additional
    • At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)).
    • Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
Experience with Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments.
  • Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems.
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    • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak.
    • Demonstrated success in cross functional coordination and execution.
    • Strong communication
skills and the ability to perform under pressure during incidents. Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Experience with creating customized dashboards to track SLIs and other key performance indicators.
  • Development
experience (Bash, PowerShell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.).
  • Experience with Appian or other low-code platforms.
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    • Knowledge of security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, data protection).
    • Infrastructure-as-code
experience (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi).
  • AWS cloud certifications. Required
Education and Experience Equivalency
  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent
experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant
    • At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)).
    • Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification. Required Security
Clearance
  • Active Top Secret/SCI

Job ID

4403

Security Clearance

TS/SCI
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