IT Platforms Specialist

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced IT Platforms Specialist to support the design, administration, and optimization of enterprise application platforms across on-premises and AWS cloud environments. This role is responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and securing application infrastructure while ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Linux administration, cloud technologies, automation, networking, and infrastructure management.

Working closely with software architects, infrastructure teams, and technical stakeholders, you will help translate architectural designs into operational environments, automate infrastructure processes, strengthen platform security, and support mission-critical applications through modern infrastructure and cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage application server provisioning through automated processes.
• Create, edit, and maintain Ansible playbooks for provisioning and patch management across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
• Create, edit, and maintain load balancing and traffic management rules supporting applications hosted within NLM infrastructure and AWS Cloud.
• Develop and maintain AWS CloudFormation, AWS Config, and AWS Lambda scripts for application server deployment and management.
• Coordinate with technical infrastructure teams to ensure work is completed in accordance with established Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Create and maintain approximately 2,500 firewall rules supporting secure application network communications.
• Manage, maintain, and administer application server platforms supporting Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, and PHP running on CentOS Linux.
• Research, evaluate, and implement continuous improvements to application platforms, with a focus on security, automation, patch management, and configuration management.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated organizational and time management skills with the flexibility to manage changing priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Experience analyzing and developing IT infrastructure from architectural design documentation.
• Demonstrated experience in systems analysis, systems architecture, and systems design.
• Experience translating architectural designs into secure, operational infrastructure.
• Ability to create and maintain accurate "as-provisioned" infrastructure documentation.
• Experience training and guiding software architects on infrastructure limitations, deployment considerations, and tradeoffs within FISMA Moderate environments.
• Experience working in Agile environments using Kanban methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to research, evaluate, and implement emerging technologies and infrastructure improvements.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience administering Linux server environments.
• Experience developing systems support scripts using Shell (BASH, KSH, TCSH) and either Python or Ruby.
• Experience provisioning and administering Apache HTTP Server (HTTPD), Apache Tomcat, Python/Django applications, and Ruby on Rails applications.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols (TCP, DNS, FTP, TLS, HTTP/HTTPS), JSON, XML, YAML, and infrastructure management tools such as Ansible and Nagios.
• AWS Cloud Operations experience equivalent to an AWS Certified Professional.
• Experience supporting OCCS or organizations of similar size, scope, and complexity while partnering with internal customers to identify and automate operational functions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field