Principal Platform Engineer (DevSecOps Lead)

Analytica is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer (DevSecOps Lead) to lead the infrastructure, automation, security, and operational engineering of a high-visibility analytics environment supporting a critical federal mission. This role serves as the foundational platform architect responsible for ensuring the environment is stable, secure, scalable, and optimized for continuous delivery.
This leader will own the strategy and execution for cloud infrastructure, container platforms, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, identity and access management, and production support, while partnering closely with the Solutions Architect to enable both current operations and future-state modernization.
Our company has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing 250 businesses in the US for 3 years. We work with U.S. government clients in health, civilian, and national security missions to build better technology products that impact our day-to-day lives. The company offers competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses, employer-paid health care, training and development funds, and 401k match. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Serve as the platform and DevSecOps lead for a secure, enterprise analytics environment spanning development, test, staging, and production.
• Define and implement the platform engineering roadmap for reliability, automation, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead architecture and operations for AWS infrastructure, OpenShift/container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and environment standardization.
• Embed security, compliance, vulnerability management, code quality, and policy enforcement throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Oversee configuration management, release management, automated deployment, database change promotion, and production support.
• Establish strong monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, and recovery practices to improve system resilience and operational insight.
• Drive secure identity and access management, including support for SSO/OAuth and policy-based access control.
• Partner with engineering, testing, security, and operations teams to support integrated delivery, reduce operational risk, and accelerate modernization.
• Lead development of SOPs, runbooks, deployment procedures, and other operational documentation while mentoring engineers on DevSecOps and platform best practices.

Required Qualifications 

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain any required clearance or suitability determination.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field. Masters degree a plus
• 12+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, infrastructure engineering, site reliability, or systems engineering, including leadership of enterprise-scale environments.
• Proven experience leading secure cloud and container platforms, preferably in AWS-based environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Jenkins, CloudBees, Harness, GitHub
  • Liquibase, Ansible, and infrastructure/configuration automation
  • Linux administration across RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, plus Windows Server environments
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, DMS, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, and CloudFormation.
• Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD, automated testing, release orchestration, infrastructure as code, and secure software delivery.
• Strong knowledge of application/container security, vulnerability scanning, code quality, dependency management, and operational hardening, including tools such as SonarQube, Fortify, Twistlock, CrowdStrike, and Tenable.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and CloudWatch.
• Experience supporting environments with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, including coordinated application/database releases.
• Strong understanding of IAM, SSO/OAuth2, configuration management, change control, and incident response in Agile environments.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Certifications: AWS Certified Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar 
• Experience in federal, regulated, or other mission-critical environments. Experience with data infrastructure security controls and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53.
• Experience supporting analytics platforms and data-intensive systems.
• Familiarity with Kong/OAuth2, Kafka, EKS, Cloudflare, Selenium, and JUnit.
• Experience supporting COTS-heavy ecosystems including Databricks, Tableau, and Informatica. 

About ANALYTICA: Analytica is a leading consulting and information technology solutions provider to public sector organizations supporting health, civilian, and national security missions. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Bethesda, MD, the company is an established SBA small business that has been recognized by Inc. Magazine each of the past three years as one of the 250 fastest-growing companies in the U.S.  Analytica specializes in providing software and systems engineering, information management, analytics & visualization, agile project management, and management consulting services. The company is appraised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at CMMI® Maturity Level 3 and is an ISO 9001:2008 certified provider.