Senior Platform Engineer
CACI International · Denver, CO
$98,500–$206,800from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role supporting a geospatial intelligence program for a U.S. government agency. Day-to-day work centers on building and maintaining Kubernetes-based infrastructure, designing CI/CD pipelines, and managing infrastructure-as-code with tools like Terraform and Ansible. The role also covers security hardening, observability, and supporting multiple development teams. Suited to experienced infrastructure or platform engineers holding an active TS/SCI clearance. Contingent on contract award.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Location is not specified in the posting — CACI notes the role 'can be worked in more than one location' and the salary range is described as a national average. The role supports NGA, which is headquartered in Springfield, VA (Washington, DC metro), but no single site is confirmed.
The TS/SCI clearance is a hard gate; the polygraph is listed as an 'ability to obtain' rather than a current requirement, so it is not treated as a separate hard gate beyond TS/SCI.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as required but equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the JD emphasizes building CI/CD pipelines, writing infrastructure-as-code, and developing platform services — shipping code — rather than purely operating existing infrastructure. The alt code 15-1244 is noted given the significant operational/administration component.
Terraform and Ansible are listed together under 'infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools' without specifying which is primary; both are captured as required skills with each listed as an alternative for the other.
Python and Bash are listed together as scripting skills; both are captured as required with each as an alternative for the other.
OpenShift experience in a government/IC environment, cloud familiarity (AWS, C2S), and SAFe/Agile experience appear under the 'Desired' section and are marked as preferred.
This position is contingent upon contract award.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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