Platform Software Engineer

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Recruiting for this role ends on 08/31/2026.

Work You’ll Do

As a PROJECT - Security Engineer III on the Enterprise Security team, you will be responsible for: 

Drive secure platform modernization for mission systems across classified and multi-environment deployments, helping clients transition from on-premises infrastructure to AWS GovCloud. In this role, you will support DevSecOps automation, CI/CD modernization, containerized services, and infrastructure-as-code solutions in high-security environments. You will also help strengthen enterprise Linux platforms to improve deployment consistency, security compliance, and operational efficiency while supporting accreditation activities across complex mission settings.

• Designing, building, and evolving secure platform capabilities supporting mission systems across classified and multi-environment deployments
• Modernizing infrastructure from on-premises environments to Amazon Web Services GovCloud in alignment with Impact Level 5 and security compliance requirements
• Leading automation and DevSecOps efforts, including transition of legacy tooling to GitLab and Ansible-based continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Developing and maintaining containerized services, Python and Bash automation, and infrastructure-as-code solutions supporting provisioning, authentication, and user management
• Hardening, patching, and sustaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments to meet Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guide standards and support accreditation activities across Secret through Special Access Program environments

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Enterprise Security offering embeds security in all aspects of digital transformation by securing a client’s technical backbone while enabling secure digital transformation. Includes security architecture, secure development and deployment, end-to-end cyber cloud capabilities, application security, and security for emerging technologies and connected products.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years of professional experience
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future. 
• Active TS/SCI clearance or SCI eligibility 
• This role has a requirement to be onsite 5 days a week in Colorado Springs, CO. 
• Ability to travel 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• 3+ years of experience with the following: 
• Experience working in a DOW and or cyber program
• Experience using Agile software development methodology
• Experience supporting cloud infrastructure
• Experience building, maintaining, or supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines

Preferred: 

• CompTIA Security+, Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,600 to $159,300.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.