Business Unit:

Cubic Defense

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details:

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Platform & Release Engineer to help design, build, secure, and deliver Kubernetes-based platforms and release systems in complex operational environments, including offline and air-gapped deployments. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives at the intersection of platform engineering, automation, release management, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate combines deep Kubernetes and infrastructure expertise with strong software engineering skills and a pragmatic, security-conscious mindset. You should be comfortable building automation and tooling, supporting deployment pipelines, troubleshooting across the full stack, and improving developer/operator workflows. We are also looking for someone who embraces AI-assisted engineering workflows and uses modern tooling to accelerate productivity and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based platform and release systems for secure and constrained environments
• Develop and maintain automation tooling, deployment workflows, and operational utilities using Python, Bash, and infrastructure-as-code approaches
• Build and support release pipelines, artifact management workflows, and reproducible deployment bundles
• Maintain and improve internal operator and engineering workbench tools using modern web technologies
• Support Kubernetes platform operations, including cluster provisioning, upgrades, configuration management, and troubleshooting
• Engineer secure deployment workflows with strong attention to credential handling, certificate management, secrets isolation, and deployment guardrails
• Collaborate across engineering teams to improve platform reliability, deployment consistency, and operational efficiency
• Troubleshoot complex issues spanning applications, containers, clusters, hosts, networking, storage, and artifact distribution systems
• Mentor junior engineers and help establish engineering best practices across platform and release operations
• Continuously improve engineering workflows through automation, AI-assisted tooling, and operational best practices

Required Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in platform engineering, release engineering, or DevOps/SRE roles supporting Kubernetes-based systems
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in offline, air-gapped, or otherwise constrained deployment environments
• Strong expertise with:
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• RKE2
• Ansible Playbooks
• Jinja templating
• Strong automation and tooling development experience using:
• Python
• Bash
• Working full-stack development capability with:
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• React
• Tailwind CSS
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and artifact management workflows using:
• Git
• Artifactory
• Container registries (including Zot or similar)
• Helm charts
• Signed and reproducible release bundles
• Experience implementing secure engineering and deployment practices, including:
• Credential and secret management
• TLS certificates and CA bundle management
• Deployment boundaries and operational guardrails
• Strong understanding of:
• Platform engineering
• Release engineering
• PaaS/SaaS delivery models
• Operator-focused tooling and workflows
• Must be eligible to obtain a DOD Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting government, defense, intelligence community (IC), or similarly regulated environments
• Strong Linux systems engineering experience, particularly in:
• RHEL/Rocky Linux environments
• Docker/container runtimes
• RKE2
• Networking and storage systems
• Host provisioning and preparation
• Security-minded engineering approach that balances automation, maintainability, auditability, and operational constraints
• Strong troubles