Platform Tooling Engineer
Quick Summary
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain Public TrustEducation: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering,
Skills:AWS Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Information Technology Operations,
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
NoneClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
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~1 min readJob Description:
As a Platform Tooling Engineer supporting the ATLAS enterprise tooling ecosystem, you will be trusted to administer mission-critical platforms and automate secure, reliable tooling services. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team supporting CMS digital modernization, Agile delivery, collaboration, and DevSecOps capabilities.
- Collaborate with application teams, senior engineers, security personnel, and government stakeholders to operate enterprise tooling and provide responsive, people-focused technical support.
- Install, configure, operate, and maintain Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, GitHub Enterprise, Slack, CloudBees CI, IDM/Okta, associated plugins, CI/CD build agents, and supporting server, container, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.
- Perform platform upgrades, patching, backups, user and access provisioning, license administration, certificate management, and preventive maintenance while supporting high availability and zero-downtime operations.
- Monitor platform health, availability, utilization, capacity, APIs, integrations, and logs; responding to alerts and incidents; troubleshooting technical issues; and escalating complex problems to senior engineering staff.
- Automate infrastructure and recurring operational tasks with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer, and scripting languages while maintaining runbooks, standard operating procedures, API documentation, training materials, and application-team onboarding resources.
- Experience installing, configuring, operating, and maintaining enterprise DevOps, collaboration, or CI/CD platforms such as Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Slack, or comparable tools.
- Experience administering CI/CD controllers, build agents, pipelines, plugins, credentials, webhooks, APIs, and supporting integrations.
- Experience supporting Linux servers, containerized applications, Kubernetes platforms, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Experience performing platform upgrades, security patching, backups, restoration validation, certificate management, and routine preventive maintenance.
- Experience provisioning users and administering groups, roles, permissions, service accounts, SSO, MFA, and role-based access controls.
- Experience monitoring system health, availability, performance, capacity, utilization, APIs, integrations, and logs.
- Ability to respond to alerts, incidents, and service requests and troubleshoot platform, build-agent, access, network, API, and integration issues.
- Experience developing scripts to automate routine provisioning, administration, testing, monitoring, reporting, or maintenance activities.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code and configuration automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer, or comparable technologies.
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including secure configuration, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, automated testing, and container security.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills for working with technical teams, government stakeholders, vendors, and end users.
- Collaborative mindset with a commitment to knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, automation, security, and customer service.
- Detail-oriented approach to platform configuration, access administration, documentation, and change management.
- Experience implementing highly available platforms, automated recovery, and no-downtime upgrades.
- Experience creating training materials, FAQs, user communications, and application onboarding documentation.
- Experience supporting CMS or another federal civilian agency within FISMA, security-assessment, and Authority to Operate environments.
Work Location:
USA MD Home Office (MDHOME)Additional Work Locations:
Location & Eligibility
About this job
- Pay per year
- $123,250–$166,750 a year
- 15% below the $170,000 median for Devops Engineer jobs on Jobera (1,176 salaries).
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Listing Details
- Posted
- November 9, 2026
- First seen
- November 9, 2026
- Last seen
- November 10, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
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- 0
- Trust Level
- 68%
- Scored at
- November 10, 2026
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