Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity

About the role

As the Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity, you will serve as the technical anchor for major Connectivity projects that enable secure, resilient access between customer OT environments and Simplesense's cloud-hybrid services. You will define technical strategy across the Connectivity delivery system, architecture patterns, automation workflows, and operational workflows that allow the team to efficiently onboard and support customer environments. In this role, you will partner across engineering development and operations functions to translate product priorities into a cohesive technical plan, align implementation across teams, and raise the engineering bar for quality, standardization, and maintainability. Work Model: We prioritize candidates in the Denver, CO, San Antonio, TX, and Brooklyn, NY area, but are open to remote talent. Locals: 2 days/week onsite Remote: Quarterly travel for team meetings What Success Looks Like 30 Days: Become familiar with existing Connectivity architectures,workflows, and patterns; build relationships across Connectivity, Platform, Data Insights, and field/operations stakeholders. 60 Days: Gain a clear understanding of the Connectivity architecture; identify opportunities for standardization and automation; contribute to the technical direction of a Connectivity project initiative. 90 Days: Act as the technical owner for a Connectivity initiative project; drive architectural decisions across engineering teams; mentor Senior and Engineer-level teammates through reviews, planning, and technical guidance.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Serve as the technical owner for Connectivity projects, responsible for translating product goals into technical strategy, architecture, execution guidance, and long-term maintainability.
• Architecture & Design Leadership: Lead the design of secure, scalable Connectivity architecture patterns spanning facility-edge systems, Linux-based platforms, network appliances, secure channels, validation mechanisms, and operational handoff requirements.
• Delivery System Standardization: Define and evolve the reusable automation patterns, configuration models, validation routines, and implementation standards that allow Connectivity solutions to be delivered repeatedly and with high confidence to customer environments.
• Network Reliability : Shape the network observability and resilience measures to ensure Connectivity services meet performance, uptime, and supportability expectations.
• Technical Leadership: Collaborate across capability teams and functions to align architecture, sequencing, interfaces, and technical tradeoffs; translate cross-functional constraints into execution plans that multiple engineers and teams can follow.
• Security by Design : Embed Zero-Trust security practices into connectivity solutions. Ensure compliance with critical infrastructure security standards.
• Force Multiplier & Mentor: Raise the team's overall effectiveness through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, standards-setting, and unblocking work across Engineer and Senior Engineer levels.
• What You Bring
• Required Qualifications:
• Experience: 7+ years of experience building, designing, and operating infrastructure automation solutions in distributed environments.
• Domain Knowledge: Strong experience designing secure, scalable architectures for systems that span Linux platforms, network infrastructure, automation workflows, and operational support requirements.
• Networking Expertise : Strong expertise in networking fundamentals, Linux-based systems, secure connectivity patterns, infrastructure automation, and observability or validation mechanisms.
• Technical Strategy: Proven ability to operate at a Staff level by defining technical direction, navigating

Benefits

Additional Information

Simplesense builds, deploys, and sustains the Installation Resilience Platform that enables mission operators to rapidly adapt and respond. The Platform protects critical infrastructure from cyber attack while unlocking previously siloed information to monitor, diagnose, and improve response times to incidents. Our adversaries rapidly adopt the latest technology: we help defense users respond in kind. Simplesense is a non-traditional defense contractor and prime on the Air Force's Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control (IROC) program, which is now expanding to five additional Air Force, Space Force, and Army installations from the one prototype installation, Tyndall Air Force Base. Our team combines over 100 years of direct mission experience solving hard problems with 50 years technical expertise deploying DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure, giving us a deep appreciation for our customers' mission and end users' priorities. We build for scale, architecting and prioritizing technical work for long term sustainability. Staff Platform Engineer, Connectivity Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid), San Antonio, TX (Hybrid), Brooklyn, NY or Remote (US Based)

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