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Air Space Intelligence (ASI) is a mission-critical technology company backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Renegade Partners. The company delivers operational decision superiority across aviation, defense, energy, and critical infrastructure domains, compressing days of analysis into seconds of action.
As a Platform Engineer on the defense engineering team, you will design, build, and operate Kubernetes clusters on bare metal from the ground up. You will own the platform end-to-end: hardware bring-up, cluster lifecycle, day-2 operations, security hardening, and accreditation support. You will work closely with development and product teams to deliver mission-critical software.
Key responsibilities include:
- Bringing up bare-metal hardware from the rack, including out-of-band management (BMC, IPMI, Redfish) and automated OS provisioning
- Building and running production Kubernetes on bare metal from scratch, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, operators, networking, storage, and ingress
- Automating infrastructure as code with Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu
- Building CI/CD pipelines (Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI) that deliver software into disconnected environments
- Running platforms in production, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and runbooks
- Working with network and security teams to bring external data sources onto the platform, including firewall rules, cross-domain transfers, and data feed connectivity
- Hardening and accrediting systems to NIST and RMF standards in restricted, disconnected, or classified environments
- Explaining technical and mission concepts clearly to partners and customers
- Collaborating with operations and development teams across different locations
Requirements:
- Active TS/SCI clearance (required)
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure, or related field
- DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce certification for privileged users (such as Security+ CE)
- Willingness to work onsite in Virginia 50% of the time and provide on-call support during designated surge events
- Strong grounding in Linux systems administration, networking, and security
- Export control compliance: employment offers contingent on ability to obtain required authorizations for contemplated job duties
