Senior Platform Engineer, Security at Simplesense
Denver
$180,000–$235,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Denver
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level engineering role focused on automating, hardening, and deploying security tooling across hybrid IT and OT cloud environments for a defense-oriented platform. Day-to-day work involves writing infrastructure-as-code, configuring enterprise security tools, embedding security into CI/CD pipelines, and automating identity and access workflows — roughly 70% hands-on engineering. Suits an automation-minded security engineer with strong AWS and IaC experience who can operate in regulated, compliance-driven settings and is eligible for a DoD Secret clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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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.
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The role is hybrid (not fully remote) and US-based; no specific metro or state is named, so CBSA fields are left blank.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is ~70% hands-on infrastructure/IaC coding (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) but is security-focused throughout, with a title of 'Senior Platform Engineer, Security' and responsibilities that overlap with 15-1212 Information Security Analysts. The primary day-to-day work — writing IaC, configuration automation, and deploying security tooling — tips the balance to 15-1252.
The IaC requirement names Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTofu, and Ansible as interchangeable options; Terraform is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
The clearance gate is 'must have or be able to obtain a Secret clearance' — this is treated as a hard gate. The DoD NIPR/CAC and DoD 8140 qualification requirements are also hard gates but are not named technologies and so are captured here in notes rather than as skills.
NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-82 familiarity are listed under Requirements and treated as hard gates, even though 'familiarity with' is softer language — section placement is authoritative.
Nozomi and DISA STIG automation experience, Zero Trust DoD strategy familiarity, and certifications (AWS Security Specialty, GIAC GICSP/GRID, CISSP) all appear under 'Preferred but Not Necessary'.
Experience range of 5–10 years is stated; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the lower bound).
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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