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Infrastructure Engineer with Security Clearance

PALADIN Consulting IncRichardson, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: Infrastructure Engineer
Work Location: Richardson, TX 
Duration: 1 year contract 
Education/Experience Required: BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and a minimum 5 years of related work experience Job Description & Responsibilities :
As a Senior Platform IAC Engineer, you will be supporting the development, and maintenance of our modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution in our environment. These environments, a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware, provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large Project producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.
The Senior Platform IAC Engineer will be well versed in maintaining COTS/FOSS products and use of tools such as LDAP, RHEL, Tenable, Consul, Ansible, Terraform to implement and support the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solution for our programs.
Note This position is based in Richardson TX. and work will be performed at the onsite Facility requiring occasional travel to the customer site for upgrade and implementation activities as necessary.
You will leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to assist with deployment, implementation, modernization, and support of IAC solutions
You will support software tool customization and automation including deployment of templates, dashboards, and scripts to support program needs utilizing Ansible Playbooks
You will assist with integration of the selected platform Container development and orchestration (E.g. Kubernetes/Docker)
You will assist with design/architecture/development and support of build/test pipeline and integration, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premise or virtualized / Cloud based computing environments
You will assist engineers with specialized tool usage and issues, leveraging standards and best practices towards the solution Skills & Qualifications :
Qualifications You Must Have: 
Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and a minimum 5 years of related work experience
Experience with Integration, Cloud, Containerization, Infrastructure/Platform as a Service, Linux Development, Microservices
Experience with Linux System Administration (E.g. RHEL 6.0+).
Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe)
A current TS/SCI Security Clearance, with a CI Poly is required day 1. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Skills

Docker
Microservices
Scrum
Agile
Ansible
Consul
Kubernetes
LDAP
SAFe
Terraform

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