Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior)
Company
The Boeing Company
The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to join Boeing Defense, Space & Security in Berkeley, MO. This role focuses on platform engineering, build automation, legacy systems support, and cloud modernization in support of mission-critical engineering and software development environments.
You will help maintain and modernize internal engineering tools, build systems, and automation workflows in support of a secure, cloud-based infrastructure environment. In this role, you will work closely with software developers, mission systems engineers, and other technical stakeholders to improve developer productivity, streamline release processes, and enable reliable software delivery across the program.
The ideal candidate is a strong technical problem solver with experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering. This position requires a hands-on engineer who can support legacy environments while helping improve tools, pipelines, and deployment infrastructure across the program.
Position Responsibilities
- Lead platform engineering efforts in support of mission-critical software development and delivery environments
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and refactor legacy internal engineering tools, build scripts, and automation utilities
- Design and develop custom software tools and automation solutions to support engineering workflows and program needs
- Support and improve secure, cloud-based infrastructure environments used by the program
- Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices
- Modernize legacy build and release processes into secure, repeatable CI/CD workflows
- Containerize legacy applications, build tools, and dependencies to improve reproducibility and consistency
- Work closely with software developers to improve local development environments and remove build bottlenecks
- Collaborate with mission systems engineers and other technical stakeholders to support platform stability and engineering efficiency
- Apply analytical problem-solving skills to resolve infrastructure, tooling, and build-related issues
- Document engineering practices and platform processes to support replication, scaling, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers as needed
This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Berkeley, MO.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience)
- This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment (An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required)
- Bachelor's Degree
- 3+ years of experience with programming in C, C++ or C#
- Experience with scripting, particularly in shell scripting in sh and csh variants, Bash, Python, and PERL
- 1+ years of experience with AWS Services, E.g. VPC, IAM, EC2, Auto-scaling, ELB, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, Postgres (RDS), Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, AWS Config, Cloudtrail, AWS Developer Tools etc.
- Experience with Terraform,, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible, Cloud formation, etc.
- Experience with build and test tools such as (or similar to) BoostBuild, BoostTest, CMake, and Make
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)
- Level 4: 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to troubleshoot and support legacy engineering tools, build scripts, and automation workflows
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
- Working knowledge of secure system administration practices and support for protected or regulated environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across technical teams
- Experience supporting defense, aerospace, or highly regulated government systems
- Experience working in mission systems, embedded software, simulation, or flight software environments
- Experience modernizing, refactoring, or containerizing legacy applications, build environments, or engineering tools
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, JWCC, or other government cloud environments
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar automation platforms
- Experience improving developer productivity through tooling, automation, and standardized environments
- Experience working in Agile development environments
- Experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as Git, JIRA, Collaborator, Beyond Compare, or VersionOne
- Experience leading technical tasks, platform initiatives, or mentoring junior engineers
Conflict of Interest
Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.
CodeVue Coding Challenge
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.
Pay & Benefits
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Summary Pay Range
Experienced - Level 3: $112,200 - $151,800
Senior – Level 4: $136,850 - $185,150
Language Requirements
Not Applicable
Education
Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent
Relocation
This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.
Export Control Requirement
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance
This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance for which the U.S. Government requires U.S. Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.
Visa Sponsorship
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift
Shift 1 (United States of America)
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