Platform Engineer
Fantom Corporation · Chantilly, VA
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Jun 30, 2026
Chantilly, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining secure, scalable infrastructure for enterprise applications serving defense and intelligence programs. Day-to-day work spans managing Kubernetes clusters, writing Terraform-based infrastructure automation, configuring CI/CD pipelines, administering RHEL environments, and embedding security controls across the delivery lifecycle using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Helm, and AWS IAM. Requires an active clearance with a recent polygraph and full on-site presence.
Senior level · National · TS/SCI clearance
“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).
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 posting requires a 'fully cleared with a recent polygraph' — this maps to TS/SCI with polygraph.
Ansible and Puppet are listed together under 'configuration management tools such as Ansible and Puppet' — Ansible is named first with Puppet as an alternative, reflecting that either satisfies the requirement.
Docker (or equivalent container runtime) is inferred as a hard gate from the explicit requirement for 'container management technologies and containerized application deployments'; no specific container runtime is named, so Docker is used as the canonical representative.
The role blends infrastructure operations (RHEL administration, AWS IAM) with software-delivery engineering (IaC, CI/CD pipelines, Helm). It is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the primary day-to-day work involves building and shipping infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, and automation — not merely operating existing systems. Network/Systems Administrators (15-1244) is noted as a plausible alternative given the strong ops flavor.
Kubernetes certifications (CKA/CKAD) and AWS certifications appear under 'Desired Qualifications' and are marked preferred accordingly.
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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