
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes/Full Stack) (SAB-2611-07)
Columbia, MD · HybridFull-time$139–174K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Platform Engineer will lead deployment of a production system across three network environments, owning the process from deployment through release. The role combines Kubernetes operations with Java Spring back-end and Vue.js front-end changes, troubleshooting across infrastructure and application layers, and collaboration with DevOps, developers, and systems engineers. The position is on-site at a contractor facility in Annapolis Junction, with up to two days of telework weekly as tasking allows.
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Lead the deployment of a production system to three separate network environments. This hybrid role suits an engineer who is as comfortable running containerized systems on Kubernetes as changing application code, and who likes owning the whole deployment from start to finish. What you will do: - Deploy the system to three network environments with Kubernetes, adapting to each network's limits - Design and document a repeatable deployment process and pipeline for releases to every network - Modify and troubleshoot Java Spring back-end and Vue.js front-end components as deployments require - Diagnose problems across infrastructure, middleware, and application layers - Work with the DevOps team, developers, and systems engineers to keep practices aligned Required qualifications: - Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph completed within the last 7 years (U.S. citizenship required). - Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of software engineering experience. Without a degree, 12 years. A master's degree counts for 2 years. - Deploying and managing containerized applications with Kubernetes - Developing or modifying Java/Spring Boot applications - Developing or modifying Vue.js front ends (or strong React or Angular) - Docker and container technology - CI/CD pipelines and distributed web application deployments (for example, GitLab CI/CD) - Linux administration and Git Preferred qualifications: - Deploying across multiple isolated or classified networks - AWS cloud-native architecture and deployment - Terraform, Ansible, and Python - Elasticsearch, Apache NiFi, or MongoDB - Government reporting and dissemination policies Location: On-site at a contractor facility in Annapolis Junction, MD, with up to 2 days a week of telework as tasking allows. Schedule: Full-time, W-2 Sabre Engineering employee. 40 hours a week, normal day shift. Salary range: $139,000 to $174,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications. Benefits: - Medical plans, with Sabre paying 75% of premiums for you and your dependents - Dental and vision coverage, with Sabre paying 100% of premiums for you and your eligible dependents - Sabre contributes up to 10% of your salary to your 401(k) through profit sharing, fully vested from day one - 6 weeks of paid time off per year, including 10 holidays - Company-paid long-term disability; voluntary short-term disability and life insurance - Up to $5,000 a year for job-related training, plus $500 a year for technical books and subscriptions - Employee referral bonus of up to $5,000 How to apply: Email your resume to [email protected] with "SAB-2611-07 Platform Engineer (Kubernetes/Full Stack)" in the subject line. Word format is preferred. This position supports a U.S. government contract. Hiring is contingent on approval by our prime contractor and the government customer. Sabre Engineering is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,430 open Platform Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$139–174K/yr
- Maryland median$107–210K/yr84 salary ranges
- US median$115–220K/yr3,718 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $157K, is close to the Maryland median midpoint ($155K) — in the middle half of Platform Engineer salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 93 open Platform Engineer jobs in Maryland and 4,430 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Maryland
- Oracle29 open
- Leidos10 open
- Belay Technologies6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Platform Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (3,561 postings).
- Education
- 1,319 of the 4,430 open Platform Engineer jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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