Senior Platform Engineer - OpenShift / Container Platform at Peraton
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$146,000–$234,000from the description
Aug 9, 2026
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Sep 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Platform Engineer role at a national-security contractor, focused on standing up and operating bare-metal OpenShift clusters, driving infrastructure-as-code adoption via Terraform and Ansible, and supporting a feasibility assessment of OpenShift versus Spectro Cloud. The position involves day-2 cluster operations, STIG compliance enforcement, core platform services, and occasional physical hardware work in OCONUS environments. Candidates must be within 50 miles of one of several specified DoD facility locations across the US.
Senior level · 12+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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This role is listed at multiple locations (Oklahoma City OK, Montgomery AL, Ogden UT, San Antonio TX, Mechanicsburg PA, Chambersburg PA, Arlington VA, Ft. Meade MD, Columbus OH); Arlington VA / Ft. Meade MD are used as the representative CBSA since the posting is for a DoD/national-security contractor and those are the most prominent defense-adjacent metros listed.
The general experience minimum is stated as 12 years with a BS/BA, 10 years with an MS/MA, or 7 years with a Ph.D. — the overall years minimum is set to 12 (the lowest-degree threshold); the degree itself is not hard-required since higher degrees substitute for years.
Spectro Cloud is listed as a required 'working knowledge' alongside VMware as an equivalent; VMware is captured as an alternative since the posting treats them as interchangeable.
PowerDNS is cited as an example of authoritative DNS ('e.g., PowerDNS') within a required responsibility; it is marked required as the only named tool for that capability.
Red Hat OpenShift Administration certification, CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification, ArgoCD/Flux GitOps experience, and OCONUS bootstrap experience all appear under Preferred Qualifications.
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1252 (Software Developers — writing IaC, driving automation) and 15-1244 (Systems Admins — operating bare-metal clusters, day-2 ops, physical hardware). The IaC-driven provisioning and platform engineering framing tips it toward 15-1252, but 15-1244 is a genuine runner-up.
An active DoD Secret clearance is explicitly required, as is physical access to a DISA SIPR-accredited facility and DoD 8570/8140 compliance certification.
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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