Platform engineer

Clear Fracture is inventing new AI-driven data integration solutions, empowering organizations to utilize their data for informed decisions and more agile operations. We're looking for a highly skilled and motivated Platform Engineer to lead the cloud and on-prem deployment implementation of Clear Fracture's multi-agent data integration products. This role is a core part of the development team and will be highly impactful for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform deployment: building portable platform deployments for both online marketplace and fully disconnected, on-prem environments.
• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous delivery and improve code quality.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, provide feedback, and ensure product quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Documentation: Create clear and concise documentation for deployment processes, especially for on-prem, disconnected environments.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform and DevOps processes, tools, and methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 4+ years of Platform Engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Citizenship: Due to the nature of the work, U.S. Citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance are required.
• CI/CD pipelines: Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation, especially GitHub Actions to automate the code build, test, and deployment lifecycle.
• Cloud & Data Technologies: Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Containerization: Experience with Docker artifact management across a complex microservices application.
• Container Orchestration: Experience using Helm Charts and/or Argo CD to manage multi-container deployments in both cloud and on-premises environments.
• Kubernetes Packaging & Distribution: Experience packaging and distributing complex software products on Kubernetes, including creating deployment artifacts and distribution pipelines (not limited to running workloads).
• Marketplace deployment: Experience provisioning applications for deployment in environments like the AWS Marketplace, especially more complex Kubernetes-based applications. Terraform experience is a plus.
• Security: Experience building security-hardened Kubernetes platforms for regulated or restricted environments.
• Software Development Lifecycle: Familiarity with GitOps practices and the ability to work with legacy codebases.
• Troubleshooting: Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with a focus on system performance optimization.
• Best Practices: Experience developing platforms using industry standards and repeatable processes to maintain project timelines and budgets.
• Validation: Ability to review, test, and document platform and deployment functionality against design requirements.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders and capturing instructions and explanations in documents and presentations.
• Teamwork: Proven ability to work effectively in remote team environments.
• Adaptability: Commitment to continuous learning, adaptability to changing priorities, and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Performance Testing: Experience with performance and load testing tools.

Desired Qualifications (Plus Factors):

• Security Clearance: Active security clearance.
• Advanced Degree: Master's degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science).
• Observability: Grafana or similar monitoring platform deployment and dashboard building.
• Other technologies: Expertise in data integration platforms (e.g., Databricks, Oracle Data Flows, Informatica), database technologies (e.g., Postgres, Trino, SparkSQL), and search engines (e.g., ElasticSearch).
• AI/ML Systems: Experience working deployments of AI systems, including locally provisioned/served LLM models.

Why Clear Fracture?

• Be part of a dynamic and rapidly growing team at the forefront of AI and data integration.
• Opportunity to work on innovative multi-agent solutions for critical government missions.
• Make a significant impact on how government agencies leverage data for decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment focused on innovation and customer success.

This is an ideal opportunity to be part of inventing a whole new class of software products. At Clear Fracture, we are driven by wanting to remove friction from data handling and analysis, and we thrive vicariously through our customer’s success. We know that our employees play the largest role in our continual success. That is why we foster an environment of growth and development, with an emphasis on opportunity, recognition, and work-life balance. We give the same high level of commitment to our employees that we give to our clients. If Clear Fracture sounds like the place where you want to be, we'd enjoy speaking with you.