Platform Security Engineer- Secret Clearance Required at Sherpa 6, Inc. in Remote • Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG)

Job description

• Job Location: Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD
• Security Clearance: Active Secret security clearance required
• Citizenship: US Citizenship required
• Onsite Expectations: As needed, some travel expected to customer site
• Make an Impact Where It Matters Most
• At Sherpa 6, you won’t just build secure cloud platforms—you’ll help shape the systems that protect our nation. We’re looking for a Platform Security Engineer who brings deep security expertise, strong networking fundamentals, and modern cloud engineering practices to support mission-critical systems for a highly engaged customer.
• If you enjoy designing secure architectures, automating cloud infrastructure, integrating agentic AI into DevSecOps workflows, and solving complex technical problems that matter, you’ll find this an exceptional opportunity. You’ll join a collaborative, high-trust engineering team where your decisions immediately drive real-world outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of AWS-based solutions aligned with customer and project needs.
• You will have significant ownership over DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches
• Provide hands-on technical contributions while also mentoring and guiding solution development.
• Collaborate with customer and internal teams to validate release readiness, ensuring regression, performance, and security testing gates are met.
• Create and maintain release documentation, including schedules, rollback plans, and release notes.
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build, pipeline, and deployment issues efficiently.
• Monitor release metrics to ensure compliance with SLAs and organizational standards.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Pulumi or Terraform to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Work closely with the customer and internal teams to understand existing solutions, champion updates, and guide architectural evolution.
• Research, propose, and validate solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Clearly communicate status, challenges, and recommendations, owning all DevSecOps deliverables for the project

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering , build engineering, or a similar discipline.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Hands-on cloud engineering in AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage) with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi or Terraform).
• Building CI/CD pipelines with security gates and scanning built in (SAST, dependency, and container scanning).
• Ability to take a set of security requirements and build a repeatable, auditable process to maintain compliance — implementing a control set such as NIST, supporting the ATO (Authority to Operate) process for systems on a DoW network, and demonstrating compliance to DoW auditors.
• Strong networking fundamentals — the layers, how they interact, and hands-on experience securing them.
• Experience implementing role-based, least-privilege access.
• Continuous security monitoring — access logging, vulnerability scanning, and anomaly detection.
• Designing and automating secure MLOps pipelines — data ingestion and transformation through model deployment.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at scale — multi-site policy enforcement, monitoring, and failover.
• Automating SDN configuration for distributed or fielded systems.
• Secure configuration management and update automation for edge/fielded deployments.
• Experience in a classified / ATO'd government test or integration environment.

Skills

Required

• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell
• Groovy
• AWS
• Pulumi
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• SAST
• dependency scanning
• container scanning
• NIST

Benefits

• We offer a competitive benefits package, covering the cost of medical for you and your family; we also offer dental, vision, health and wellness benefits and a generous retirement savings plan. We believe that our employees can manage their workload and their personal life, therefore we extend a generous PTO policy. This allows our employees to balance their lives as they see fit.
• The proposed salary range is reflective across all Sherpa 6 locations, years of experience, and skill levels. Salary negotiations will be based on a host of factors including but not limited to your geographic location, prior experience, relevant skills, education, and certifications.
• $105,000 - $160,000