Platform Engineer
GRVTY · Chantilly, VA
$150,000–$200,000
Jul 10, 2026
Chantilly, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure underpinning intelligence-community applications and services. Day-to-day work centers on configuration management, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud identity management using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Helm, and AWS IAM on RedHat Linux. The position requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and is based in Chantilly, VA.
Senior level · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $150,000–$200,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). 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)
This role sits at the boundary between platform/infrastructure engineering (15-1244) and software development (15-1252). The JD emphasizes building and maintaining infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling — leaning toward 15-1252 — but also includes significant OS administration and configuration management work typical of 15-1244. 15-1252 was chosen as primary given the emphasis on designing and implementing platform infrastructure with code-centric tooling (Terraform, Helm, CI/CD).
Kubernetes, DevSecOps, Terraform, and large-scale cloud experience are listed exclusively under 'What Would be Nice to Have' and are treated as preferred, despite Kubernetes and DevSecOps being mentioned in the role description narrative. Section placement governs.
A TS/SCI with Polygraph is an explicit hard gate — the posting states it is required and applicable to this specific customer in Chantilly, VA (an intelligence community site).
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent relevant experience,' so no minimum degree is hard-required.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated in the JD; the $150K–$200K salary range and clearance requirement suggest a senior-level role.
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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