Platform Engineer - US at Adarga
Herndon, VA
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Aug 12, 2026
Herndon, VA
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An entry-level Platform Engineer role at a UK-based defence AI company, supporting and improving cloud infrastructure for a containerised microservices product. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure-as-code contributions, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD pipeline automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery — all under mentorship from senior engineers. Suited to someone early in a platform or DevOps career who wants exposure to defence and national-security workloads.
Junior level · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
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Why we read it this way (6)
Adarga is a UK-based company (London); this role is not US-based. US benchmarks will not apply.
The posting explicitly frames this as an entry-level / early-career opportunity with committed mentoring, so it is classified as Junior despite no explicit level word in the title.
FedRAMP and US Government Cloud experience appear under Essential requirements — unusual for a UK defence company; this likely reflects a specific US-market product line or customer requirement rather than a US work location.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgement call: the role primarily operates and maintains cloud infrastructure (supporting 15-1244), but also contributes to IaC codebases and CI/CD pipelines (supporting 15-1252). 15-1244 was chosen because the framing emphasises operating and supporting existing systems under guidance, with code contribution as a secondary activity.
Terraform/OpenTofu and Terragrunt appear only under Desirable requirements despite Terraform being mentioned in the 'What you'll be doing' section; the desirable heading governs, so they are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
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