Platform Systems Engineer, Associate Principal

As an Associate Principal Platform Systems Engineer, I will have you: - Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure computing platforms across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring seamless integration of hardware, OS, middleware, and software components. - Translate system architecture strategies into platform-specific requirements and configurations and ensure traceability to customer needs and compliance with regulatory standards. - Define and monitor platform performance metrics, automate environment readiness testing, and support verification and validation for system deployment and sustainment. - Establish and enforce platform engineering standards, infrastructure documentation practices, and DevSecOps-driven procedures across development and production environments. - Collaborate with cybersecurity, software, and network teams to ensure platform security, reliability, and operational continuity. - Write and maintain technical documentation—including configuration guides, operational procedures, and deployment checklists—to support platform lifecycle management. - Engage with stakeholders to understand mission requirements and shape platform solutions that align with evolving system needs and technical roadmaps. - Manage both Linux (RHEL) and Windows systems, including user/admin control, network configuration, storage, and patch management. - Provide Tier III support for virtualization environments (e.g., VMware) and enterprise-class storage systems (e.g., EMC SANs).