Senior Platform Engineer at Synergy ECP
Columbia
$150,000–$250,000from the description
Aug 10, 2026
Columbia
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Platform Engineer role at a defense/intelligence-focused IT services firm, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure tooling. The position involves automating operational processes, monitoring system reliability with observability tools, and collaborating closely with software engineering and operations teams. Suited to an experienced infrastructure/platform professional with a Linux background and active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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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 $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 Aug 12, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists Ansible and Linux as the only concrete named technologies in the qualifications/requirements section; Prometheus and Grafana appear only as parenthetical examples in the responsibilities narrative ('e.g., Prometheus, Grafana'), so they are treated as preferred/illustrative rather than hard gates.
Prometheus and Grafana are listed together as interchangeable observability examples in the posting; they are captured as separate preferred skills with each listed as an alternative to the other, reflecting that either (or similar tools) would satisfy the requirement.
The CWIP IAT Level 1 certification requirement is a DoD baseline certification gate but names no specific product/technology tool, so it is not emitted as a skill.
A degree is explicitly 'preferred' (not required), so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role is headquartered in Columbia, MD; the broader Washington DC metro CBSA is used as the relevant labor market given the defense/intelligence community context.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the posting describes building and maintaining platforms and automating pipelines (pointing to Software Developers, 15-1252), but also has significant infrastructure operations and monitoring responsibilities (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 is selected as primary given the emphasis on building internal platforms and deployment pipelines.
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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