Platform Infrastructure Lead

Role Overview

Manage and operate platform services in a tenant environment above hypervisor level. Ensure reliability, security and operability of container platforms and COTS components (MongoDB, Nginx, MQTT, IBM MQ, ArcGIS, etc).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead platform operations team for container platforms and COTS services
• Manage incidents, changes, RCA and platform lifecycle
• Install, configure and troubleshoot COTS components
• Work with application and Authority Furnished Equipment (AFE) teams for integration and issue resolution
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks and architecture documentation
• Ensure monitoring, logging and observability
• Support patching, upgrades and lifecycle management
• Ensure OS hardening compliance (golden image)
• Drive capacity planning and performance tuning
• Lead DR/BCP activities

Qualifications

• 7-10 years infrastructure/platform experience
• Strong Kubernetes / Container platform experience
• Experience with Docker / Podman
• Experience installing and managing MongoDB, MSSQL, Nginx, Apache
• Experience with messaging systems (IBM MQ, MQTT, Kafka equivalent)
• Understanding of network, firewall, load balancer (for troubleshooting)
• Linux administration and OS hardening
• Monitoring tools (eG Monitoring, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Experience in government/regulated environments preferred

Preferred Skills

• Experience with CI/CD integration
• Automation (Ansible, scripting)
• Integration patterns (REST, messaging)
• Security compliance familiarity
• Platform (PaaS/CaaS), containers, COTS, OS hardening