Senior Platform Engineer (Digital Ecosystem) at PMAT
San Diego, CA
$135,000–$155,000
Jul 22, 2026
San Diego, CA
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure role focused on designing, automating, and sustaining secure cloud and platform environments in support of Navy and DoD programs, based on-site at NAVWAR in San Diego. Day-to-day work centers on AWS GovCloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code, scripting, containerized platform operations, and cybersecurity hardening. The role suits an experienced platform or cloud engineer comfortable working across cross-functional teams and holding an active DoD Secret clearance.
Senior level · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $166,860 (middle half $131,418–$198,246).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The Required Skills section is written in broad, capability-based language (e.g., 'experience supporting platform engineering', 'experience using scripting/IaC concepts') without naming specific technologies — only Infrastructure as Code is concrete enough to mark as a hard gate. All named technologies (AWS services, scripting languages, OS, containers, etc.) appear exclusively under the 'Preferred Skills and Experience' heading.
An active DoD Secret clearance is a hard requirement; TS/SCI eligibility is listed as preferred. No dual citizenship is also explicitly required.
The role is 100% on-site at NAVWAR in San Diego, CA with up to 10% travel (CONUS and OCONUS); a current passport is required.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role emphasizes IaC authoring, scripting, and automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong systems/infrastructure operations dimension (pointing to 15-1244). The IaC and automation-first framing, combined with scripting in Python/Bash/PowerShell and container platform engineering, tips the classification to 15-1252.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is listed — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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