• Lead the platform engineering team: own its delivery, reliability commitments, health, and the growth and career development of its engineers, while remaining hands-on in the infrastructure and tooling yourself • Make LegitScript’s infrastructure auditable: own environment separation, change control, access management, and audit logging so that changes to production are traceable and defensible, and so the controls hold up to the Secure SDLC Policy, the Change Management Policy, and SOC 2 evidence requirements • Drive the migration to a standardized Kubernetes deployment path, delivered incrementally at natural replacement points while maintaining operational continuity for the teams and services that depend on it • Build and own the developer tooling and self-service deployment paths that let engineers ship application code to production without hand-managing infrastructure: the paved road, the golden paths, and the guardrails that make the safe way the easy way • Own and improve the CI/CD pipeline and its controls, including branch protection, required peer review, automated security and quality testing, and gated deployment, so the pipeline enforces our engineering and security standards at scale • Establish infrastructure-as-code standards in Terraform and bring manual or unmanaged production changes under version control and change management, eliminating the drift that creates technical debt and audit gaps • Reduce business-as-usual toil through automation and replatforming, so that volume growth stops being a headcount equation and engineering capacity shifts toward higher-value work • Own reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response for infrastructure as first-class concerns; serve as an escalation point and coordinate response for infrastructure incidents • Hold the boundary with the application platform: provide the infrastructure substrate and tooling that the application-platform and domain teams consume, and partner with the Staff Engineer who owns that platform rather than duplicating or absorbing their scope • Set and enforce the standard for infrastructure code quality, testing, documentation, and review, and raise the bar for the engineers and partners who work in the platform through clarity and example • Manage cloud cost and capacity deliberately, making the tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and spend explicit rather than incidental • Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Audit existing analytics applications to understand their underlying technology choices, data flows, and integration points • Design and implement integration patterns (APIs, event streams, shared data contracts) that allow siloed applications to interoperate without unnecessary rewrites • Evaluate build vs. consolidate vs. federate tradeoffs for components across the platform, documenting your rationale and driving alignment • Develop a deep understanding of existing data pipelines owned by distributed teams — including their data sources, transformation logic, and dependencies • Design and build a unified presentation layer that surfaces data from heterogeneous compute environments — including large-scale distributed systems (e.g., Spark) and traditional relational databases — in a consistent, accessible way • Deploy and manage platform services on cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP experience a plus)

• Build, maintain, and modernize the data infrastructure that Medium's product and engineering teams depend on • Own reliability of data infrastructure: Identify risks, instrument better observability, drive improvements that reduce toil • Bring a product mindset to platform ownership, partnering with engineers and stakeholders across teams • Contribute to the long-term platform roadmap, migrate end-of-life systems toward modern alternatives • Write and review Python-based tooling for pipeline orchestration, data quality, and infrastructure automation • Apply DevOps and SRE best practices • Mentor teammates and improve shared standards around reliability, documentation, and platform ergonomics • Attend Medium's twice-yearly, in-person offsites

Role Description Five Rivers Analytics is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to work in North Charleston, SC. The Cloud Platform Engineer designs, implements, and sustains secure, scalable, and automated Kubernetes platform capabilities within DoD cloud environments. This role enables application teams to adopt cloud-native patterns while ensuring cybersecurity compliance and operational reliability. - Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes platforms (EKS) for multi-tenant enterprise workloads. - Lead application migration to containerized architectures. - Build reusable platform components such as operators, Helm charts, and IaC modules. - Automate cluster lifecycle tasks (provisioning, upgrades, scaling, patching). - Develop IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK. - Implement monitoring and observability solutions. - Troubleshoot cluster, node, networking, and application issues. - Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards. - Implement RBAC, IAM roles for service accounts, and least-privilege policies. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows. - Support application modernization and migration strategies. - Provide Tier 3 engineering support and documentation. Qualifications - Interim Secret Clearance with ability to obtain Top Secret clearance. - Bachelor’s degree in CS, IT, Engineering, Math, or related field, or equivalent experience. - 8+ years experience (Bachelor’s) or 6+ years (Master’s). - Hands-on AWS experience (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, ECR). - Experience with Kubernetes architecture and operations. - Experience with Docker and container security. - Experience with IaC tools. - Understanding of DoD cybersecurity frameworks. - Experience with Linux system administration, with preference given to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in enterprise or DoD environments. - Experience in Agile/SAFe environments. Requirements - Advanced experience operating Kubernetes/EKS clusters in production at scale. - Proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation for modular IaC provisioning. - Hands-on experience with Ansible or similar tools for configuration automation. - Experience implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or Flux. - Strong background designing cloud-native platform components (Helm charts, operators, reusable modules). - Experience with container security tools (Anchore, Twistlock, Aqua). - Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd). - Experience implementing RBAC, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), and least-privilege models. - Proven ability to build automated cluster lifecycle workflows (upgrades, scaling, patching). - Experience with multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes operations. - Strong understanding of DoD cloud security frameworks (STIGs, NIST 800‑53, RMF). - Experience integrating observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry). - Ability to troubleshoot complex networking issues within distributed container platforms. Benefits - The company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and a range of other voluntary benefits. - Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time and part-time employees. Company Description Five Rivers Analytics (FRA), an Akima company, is not just another federal IT contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska. - At FRA, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States. - For our shareholders, FRA provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. - For our government customers, FRA delivers streamline operations in support of an increasingly fast-paced, complex, and dynamic digital environment. - As a FRA employee, you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. - You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options.