# Senior Platform Engineer

**Company:** [NODA AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/noda-ai)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, CloudFormation, Prometheus, Grafana, Ros2, Python, Bash, Linux
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Senior Platform Engineer architects and maintains infrastructure for autonomous vehicle orchestration platform, building CI/CD pipelines, managing AWS/on-premises/edge deployments, and ensuring DoD security compliance. Requires 5+ years in DevOps with Docker, AWS, and IaC expertise.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deploying ROS2-based microservices and orchestration software across multiple environments
- Implement container orchestration using Docker, with a growth path toward Kubernetes
- Manage AWS cloud infrastructure, on-premises deployments, and edge device provisioning for autonomous vehicle fleets
- Develop infrastructure automation and configuration management tools
- Implement and maintain DoD IL4/IL5 security compliance, including encryption, access controls, and audit logging
- Build internal tooling and CLI utilities to improve developer productivity
- Design observability and monitoring systems for distributed autonomous vehicle orchestration
- Ensure infrastructure resilience and disaster recovery capabilities
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize deployment strategies for constrained edge computing environments
- Support field deployment operations and troubleshoot infrastructure issues

## Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure automation
- Expert-level proficiency with **Docker** containerization and container orchestration concepts
- Strong experience with **AWS** cloud services (**EC2**, **ECS**, **S3**, **VPC**, **IAM**, **CloudFormation**/**Terraform**)
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (**GitHub Actions**, **Jenkins**, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (**Terraform**, **Ansible**, or **CloudFormation**)
- Knowledge of Linux system administration and networking fundamentals
- Understanding of security best practices for enterprise and government environments
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (**Prometheus**, **Grafana**, **ELK stack**, or similar)
- Strong scripting abilities in **Python**, **Bash**, or similar languages

## Preferred Qualifications
- **CompTIA Security+** and **Network+** certifications
- Experience with **Kubernetes** orchestration and service mesh technologies
- Familiarity with DoD security standards and compliance frameworks (**IL4/IL5**, **STIG**, **FedRAMP**)
- Experience deploying software to embedded or edge computing platforms (**Jetson**, **Raspberry Pi**, tactical computers)
- Knowledge of **ROS2** middleware and robotics software deployment patterns
- Background in defense, aerospace, or mission-critical infrastructure environments
- Experience with tactical networking and field deployment operations
- Familiarity with zero-trust architecture and secure communications protocols
- Previous work with real-time systems and low-latency networking requirements
- Familiarity with contracts and schema/versioning for middleware services (e.g., **ROS 2**)

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