Senior Platform Engineer in Rockville, Maryland at FM Talent Source

RESPONSIBILITIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads.
• Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards.
• Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, and related AWS services.
• Define the YAML-based application contract used by application teams.
• Implement promotion workflows, approvals, drift prevention, and environment separation.
• Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths.
• Design and develop end-to-end Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy to automate seamless code promotion from development through to production environments.
• Build Terraform modules and root-module compositions for multi-service applications.
• Support ECS Fargate and optional AWS capabilities such as S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM.
• Standardize build, test, deploy, and approval workflows.
• Establish Terraform state and environment management practices.
• Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or additional FOUR (4) years experience in Lieu of degree
• Minimum of SEVEN (7) years Platform Development experience
• Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Hands-on Terraform experience, including module design and backend/state management.
• Jenkins pipeline expertise, preferably shared libraries and multibranch pipelines.
• Experience creating reusable platform abstractions for multiple services.
• Good scripting ability in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, and release governance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience designing IDP (Internal developer platforms).
• Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services.
• Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion.
• Experience with multi-account AWS design.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous patterns.
• Experience onboarding application teams to shared tooling.
• Experience supporting ServiceNow-based low-code applications.