Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions is hiring a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to support a core mission analytic platform. The role focuses on modernizing and sustaining application codebases, automating container packaging and orchestration pipelines, and implementing infrastructure as code. It also provides hands-on developer support, peer reviews, and help resolving team roadblocks.

Responsibilities

• The Software Engineer will join an agile engineering team responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput services for a core mission analytic platform
• In this role, you will modernize and sustain critical application codebases, automate containerized packaging and orchestration pipelines, and implement infrastructure as code
• Beyond individual technical contributions, you will serve as a technical resource across the team, providing hands-on developer support, conducting peer reviews, and unblocking teammates to maintain mission momentum

Skills

• ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED
• Proven experience developing, debugging, maintaining, and updating enterprise application code in Java (or C++/Go) across modern development frameworks
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building, optimizing, and securing OCI-compliant container images using Docker
• Direct experience configuring and deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters, including creating and managing Helm charts
• Practical proficiency in automating cloud or on-premise infrastructure provisioning using Terraform
• Strong track record of providing direct technical support to engineering teammates, conducting code reviews, and resolving integration roadblocks in an agile environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 14+ years of professional experience in data science, NLP, or software engineering
• High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 18+ years of specialized technical experience in lieu of a degree
• Experience refactoring legacy Java applications to modern LTS versions (e.g., Java 17/21) and microservice frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Quarkus)
• Practical experience configuring continuous integration and automated deployment pipelines using platforms such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
• Familiarity with cluster observability and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, or Fluentbit
• Experience applying container hardening standards (e.g., distroless base images, CVE scanning via Trivy) and aligning with mission security guidelines (e.g., DISA STIGs)
• Familiarity with message brokers or distributed data engines (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, or Elasticsearch) within cloud-native analytic architectures

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus compensation.
• 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company.
• Flexibility to cash out annual leave hours.
• Option to arrange for additional hours on contract (over 40 hrs/week).
• Option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract.
• Option to buy additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks (up to 240 hours), plus 11 holidays and paid anniversary leave.
• Flexibility to scale down to 30–32 hours while still enjoying Nyla benefits.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage 100% covered by the company.
• 10% 401k matching, with full vesting day 1.
• $5,000 per year for professional development, to be used toward fees, tuition, or time off for continued growth.
• Student loan repayment program.
• 8 hours of volunteering annually.

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