Platform Engineer II - Agile Defense

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1656

Job Title: Platform Engineer II

Location: Hybrid, McLean, VA

Job Description

We are seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer II to own and operate our internal lab and demo environments. This role supports a hybrid platform ecosystem spanning on-prem lab infrastructure, virtualization, cloud services, Kubernetes/containerized workloads, CI/CD tooling, artifact repositories, automation, and developer enablement.

The Platform Engineer II will help maintain environment readiness, improve deployment consistency, support development teams with repeatable deployment patterns, and ensure customer demos, product experiments, prototypes, training, and onboarding environments are reliable and well documented.

This is a practical, hands-on platform engineering role for someone who can troubleshoot across the stack, automate repeatable work, document operational procedures, and help bring structure to a fast-moving lab environment.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment. You do not need to be a senior architect, but you should be able to troubleshoot independently, ask good questions, document what you learn, and help improve the way environments are built and maintained.

You should be comfortable working across multiple areas of the platform stack and willing to jump into whatever the lab environment needs, whether that is fixing a deployment, debugging ingress, improving a Jenkins or GitHub Actions workflow, troubleshooting a virtual machine, writing a validation script, updating documentation, or helping a development team standardize how an application is deployed.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day operations, readiness, and reliability of lab and demo environments.

Maintain and support Kubernetes and containerized application deployments.

Support on-prem lab infrastructure, virtualization platforms, virtual machines, and related network/storage dependencies.

Support development teams by creating reusable deployment patterns, templates, documentation, and runbooks.

Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD workflows using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Troubleshoot issues across Linux systems, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes resources, networking, DNS, TLS, ingress, and application