Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage a secure, cloud-native platform that supports data, analytics, and AI/ML for a federal health initiative.

• Take ownership of and enhance the Terraform and ArgoCD infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps foundation.

• Create and maintain a multi-tenant, self-service platform featuring streamlined onboarding, tenant/environment management, an application and tooling catalog, and internal developer tooling/CLI.

• Operate Kubernetes on AWS GovCloud across development, pre-production, and production environments.

• Implement Karpenter and KEDA for autoscaling, ingress, Gateway API, cert-manager, and ALB integration.

• Design and deploy AIOps/MLOps capabilities for data science and data engineering teams.

• Facilitate GPU compute and scheduling, model training and serving, managed notebooks, GenAI/Bedrock workloads, and production ML pipelines.

• Construct the data lakehouse utilizing Trino/Iceberg on Glue and S3, Dagster, dbt, and search integration.

• Provide observability and service level objectives (SLOs) using Prometheus and Grafana, including custom dashboards and actionable alerting mechanisms.

• Automate security and compliance measures through secrets management, network policies, IRSA least privilege, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, and ATO artifact generation.

• Create and maintain platform documentation, production-readiness standards, and operational runbooks.

• Collaborate directly with government stakeholders and platform tenants to translate mission requirements into platform functionalities.

• Mentor team members and progress into a technical leadership position.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering, with senior-level responsibility for a production platform.

• Developed an internal developer platform/PaaS from inception for federal clients and successfully brought it to production through ATO in a federal program.

• Extensive hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter/KEDA, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, Trino, Dagster, dbt, and AWS services including EKS, S3, Glue, IAM/IRSA, ECR, SageMaker, Bedrock, and Athena.

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux), and Terraform infrastructure-as-code.

• Experience in designing self-service golden paths, multi-tenancy, and developer onboarding processes.

• Strong background in CI/CD with GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and progressive delivery methodologies.

• Proficient in automation and scripting using Python, Bash, and Go.

• Familiarity with NIST 800-53, FISMA, and ATO procedures.

• Comfortable working within GovCloud and regulated environments.

• Skills in documentation and runbook creation.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; active Public Trust is advantageous.

• Strong client-facing, mentoring, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Weekly pay.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Paid certifications and training for relevant technologies.

• 401k plan with 100% match up to 6%.

• Paid time off (PTO).

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Gym/fitness membership.

• Home office setup assistance.

• Company swag.

• Complimentary snacks.

• Social events for team engagement.