Platform Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote or VA Headquarters (minutes from Washington, DC)
• Job Type: Full-time
• Company: Shift5

Shift5 is the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT). We’re a rapidly growing scale-up specializing in cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and compliance for operational technology (OT) systems across defense, aerospace, and rail. We help our customers’ fleets run smarter and safer by accessing and democratizing the volumes of onboard OT data generated by transportation and freight fleets, and defense fleets and weapon systems.

Our Values:

• Embrace Truth and Integrity: Base decisions on data, foster open dialogue, and uphold unwavering integrity.
• User-Centric Focus: Prioritize user needs to guide our actions and resource allocation.
• Collaborative & Adaptable: Collaborate for excellence, learning from failures and driving iterative improvements, recognizing every decision's significance.

Shift5 is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our expanding team. In this critical role, you will be responsible for building, deploying, and supporting solutions that operate seamlessly across edge compute devices and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Engineer: Build deployment solutions that can operate efficiently on edge devices and also seamlessly within cloud environments. This includes designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native architectures using container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and automation tools, while ensuring compatibility and performance in Linux-based edge computing setups.
• Integrate: Configure and combine existing Shift5 software components to build cohesive solutions that operate reliably on edge computing devices and scalable infrastructure. This includes assembling components to create data pipelines tailored to customer requirements, ensuring that solutions meet specific operational and data processing needs.
• Innovate: Leverage knowledge and experience to drive innovation within existing products, continuously exploring ways to improve functionality, efficiency, and scalability. Suggest new or enhanced methods, processes, automations or designs that streamline operations and improve overall product effectiveness, actively contributing to the evolution of Shift5’s technology.

Requirements

• Foundational Understanding of Systems: A deep-rooted curiosity and a fundamental knowledge of how systems and technologies operate. An intuitive grasp of core principles is essential, enabling the ability to dissect and understand how various components interact and function within complex architectures that reside on the edge or in the cloud.
• Core Expertise: Strong demonstrable expertise in Linux, networking, and cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, Containers, OCI image creation, Helm, Terraform.

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Company Information

• Industry: Cybersecurity, Predictive Maintenance, Compliance for OT Systems
• Focus: Defense, Aerospace, Rail