Platform Engineer - Automation/DevOps/AI with Security Clearance

If you'd rather write the script than click the button twice, we want to talk to you. Linchpin Software is a small, growing company, and we're hiring a Platform Engineer in Washington, DC. You'll join an enterprise developer services team that builds, maintains, and offers the tools every developer in the enterprise depends on: pipelines, environments, platforms, and the automation that ties them together. When our tools get better, every developer gets faster. This is an engineering role, not a ticket queue. The best people here write software and use AI to produce software and automation. If you can code your way out of a manual process, you'll thrive. Here's what we care about, and we hire for it:

• Be helpful. Answer the question, share what you know, and leave things better than you found them.
• Take care of the customer. Our customers are developers with hard missions. We listen, follow through, and make their day easier.
• Be a good teammate. Review the code, jump in on the tough bug, cover for each other, and celebrate the wins together. We also build software differently. Our engineers use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, GitLab Duo) every day to design, code, test, and debug faster.

What You'll Do

• Build, maintain, and improve the platforms and tools that enterprise developers use every day
• Write software and automation that replace manual work: scripts, services, pipelines, and integrations
• Run and support cloud infrastructure on AWS (or equivalent) and workloads on Kubernetes
• Use AI coding assistants to produce software and automation faster
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, and deployment issues, and help developers get unblocked Required:
• Active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance
• 5+ years of relevant experience in platform, DevOps, cloud, or software engineering
• Clear, hands-on experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform
• Clear, hands-on experience with Kubernetes or an equivalent container platform
• Strong scripting: Python, YAML, Bash, and PowerShell
• Ability to write software and automation, not just configure it
• Clear communication and a genuine willingness to help customers and teammates Preferred:
• Command of AI code assistants (Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, or similar)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Docker and container builds
• Experience building internal developer platforms or developer tooling
• Monitoring, logging, and observability tools
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications The Honest Details:
• Location: Washington, DC, full-time on site.
• Pay: $125,000 - $150,000, based on experience and what you bring.
• Clearance: active Top Secret, TS/SCI, or Intel Agency clearance required. We can't sponsor one for this role.

What You'll Gain

• Ownership of the tools and platforms every developer in the enterprise relies on
• Daily, hands-on work with AWS, Kubernetes, and AI-accelerated engineering
• A small team where your work is seen and your opinion counts
• Competitive compensation and benefits If you like building tools that make developers faster and you want a team that has your back, apply. A real person on our team reads every application.