Clarity Innovations
Principal Platform Engineer
$112K–$190K
Herndon, VA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Location
- Herndon, VA
Herndon, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 3+ years hands-on experience deploying and managing on-prem or edge computing environments with distributed nodes.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
About the job
Leads the design, deployment, automation, and maintenance of secure edge infrastructure across remote sites and cloud-native and on-premises environments.
What you'll do
- Automate edge provisioning and configuration, and build CI/CD pipelines for remote updates and deployments.
- Monitor and optimize distributed infrastructure; lead incident response and remediation, and ensure resilience, security, and compliance.
- Design and manage edge compute, storage, and networking; coordinate with developers, customers, vendors, and internal teams.
What they ask for
- Able to obtain and maintain a TS Security Clearance; only US citizens are eligible for security clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 3+ years hands-on experience deploying and managing on-prem or edge computing environments with distributed nodes.
- Experience with systems administration and networking, containerization and orchestration, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with edge-specific hardware or resource-constrained environments.
- Experience with observability solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana, or DoD/federal cybersecurity frameworks.
Pay
$111,700 - $189,900 (base salary)
Tools
Linux, Window, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, OpenShift, Ansible, Terraform
AI focus
Work with developers to optimize workloads for edge deployment, including AI/ML inference.
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