Secret Platform Engineer
Insight Global · Aurora, CO
$130,000–$170,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Aurora, CO
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Platform Engineer role supporting DoD software modernization efforts, working on-site in Colorado Springs. The position centers on building and maintaining Kubernetes-based container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling to enable secure DevSecOps software delivery. Candidates will collaborate with developers, sysadmins, and cybersecurity teams while ensuring compliance with DoD security frameworks such as RMF and STIGs.
Senior level · Colorado Springs, CO · Secret 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 $137,233 (middle half $108,638–$170,529). 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 (6)
The role sits between platform/infrastructure engineering (15-1244) and software development (15-1252). The emphasis on building CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and container platforms — rather than merely operating existing systems — tips the classification toward Software Developers (15-1252), but the DoD ops context and sysadmin collaboration make 15-1244 a credible alternative.
RMF and STIG are listed together as a single requirement ('RMF and/or STIG'); STIG is captured as an alternative since either satisfies the gate.
The specific developer/platform tools (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, Harbor, Nexus, Jira) are listed under a 'Skills and Requirements' section but framed with 'such as … or similar technologies,' indicating the named tools are illustrative examples rather than hard gates on any one specific product.
Active Secret clearance or higher is an explicit hard gate for this DoD-supporting role.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated in the posting; seniority is inferred from the scope of responsibilities (platform strategy, DevSecOps adoption, DoD compliance) and the $130K–$170K compensation range.
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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