Cloud Platform Engineer IL6/cArmy

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company , is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer IL6/cArmy with a Top Secret security clearance to support TGS in supporting our government customer in the DC Metro area. This position is for a Future New Business Opportunity.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, Koniag Government Services (KGS) is seeking qualified candidates for this role supporting our U.S. Army customer on a large-scale Army contracting systems modernization and automation program. Builds and sustains the platform within the Government-furnished cArmy/SIPR IL-6 boundary. The engineer coordinates Appian, enterprise services, identity, logging, storage, network, capacity, recovery, and inherited controls under the approved shared-responsibility model. This is a contingent recruiting profile; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing remain subject to final contract authorization.

Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Plan and implement IL-6 development, test, staging, and production environments with cArmy, Appian, security, and stakeholders.

• Document platform architecture, service dependencies, data flows, interfaces, inherited controls, and customer responsibilities.

• Configure boundary-specific identity, credentials, data sources, logging, security settings, feature availability, storage, and authorized endpoints.

• Support the approved inspection and transfer of versioned Appian packages, scripts, plug-ins, tests, SBOM information, and configuration artifacts into SIPRNet.

• Integrate IL-6 repositories, pipeline services, monitoring, scanners, evidence sources, backup, and recovery capabilities.

• Monitor availability, response time, throughput, queues, storage, platform health, interfaces, security events, and errors.

• Develop and refresh capacity models using users, concurrency, transactions, data growth, log volume, recovery objectives, and fiscal year-end demand.

• Coordinate provider-controlled scaling, maintenance, incidents, vulnerabilities, certificates, and lifecycle changes.

• Execute platform readiness, failover, backup/restore, recovery, performance, and operational-acceptance testing.

• Maintain IL-6 runbooks, configuration records, inventories, diagrams, evidence, and Tier 3 escalation procedures.

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.

• Seven or more years of cloud or platform engineering experience, including work in classified or tightly controlled DoD environments.

• Experience with cArmy or comparable DoD cloud services, SIPRNet operations, identity, networking, monitoring, backup/recovery, and shared-responsibility controls.

• Experience supporting managed application platforms and coordinating provider-owned infrastructure changes.

• U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.

• Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.

• Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.

Education and Experience Desired:

• Experience deploying or operating Appian in Army or DoD environments.

• AWS, cloud security, Linux/Windows, networking, or platform engineering certification.

• Experience with Splunk, GitLab, Nexus, SonarQube, eMASS, STIGs, and classified DevSecOps pipelines.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• cArmy and classified cloud/platform engineering

• SIPRNet environment configuration and operations

• Capacity, monitoring, backup, and recovery

• Shared-responsibility and inherited controls

• Secure artifact transfer and IL-6 DevSecOps support

Work Environment and Travel:

This position requires regular work at Government-approved secure facilities and use of authorized SIPRNet/IL-6 systems. Remote work is limited to duties that do not require access to classified information and must be specifically authorized. The role may support maintenance windows, security assessments, recovery exercises, and critical incident response outside normal duty hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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