Senior Federal Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Facilitate the deployment, operation, and ongoing maintenance of Keeper solutions within U.S. Government settings, encompassing IL5, IL6, and classified networks.

• Design, sustain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes tailored for federal environments.

• Assist in software releases, deployment execution, cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-release oversight.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration utilizing infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Uphold secure infrastructure, configuration baselines, patching protocols, and operational safeguards.

• Diagnose deployment, infrastructure, application, and platform challenges in collaboration with Engineering and Security teams.

• Establish and manage logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational telemetry systems.

• Aid in incident response, recovery efforts, postmortems, and corrective measures.

• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to enhance deployment preparedness and release quality.

• Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, operational procedures, and configuration records.

• Support continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and authorization efforts by generating technical evidence and artifacts.

• Assist with vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance drift detection, and system configuration validation.

• Utilize AI-assisted tools to enhance automation, troubleshooting, documentation, scripting, and operational effectiveness.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Release Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Practical experience deploying and managing systems in IL5, IL6, FedRAMP High, classified, or similarly restricted government environments.

• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment workflows, and production change management.

• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar technologies.

• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud and/or Azure Government.

• Proficient in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable scripting languages.

• Solid understanding of secure configuration, patching, logging, access control, and operational hardening practices.

• Experience with observability practices, including logs, metrics, alerting, and production troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and related operational controls.

• Experience in environments characterized by strict change control, limited access, and formal release processes.

• Excellent troubleshooting abilities across infrastructure, applications, networking, and deployment pipelines.

• Capability and willingness to effectively utilize AI-assisted tools.

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• All candidates must qualify as a U.S. Person.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage (including domestic partnerships).

• Employer-paid Life Insurance & Supplemental life insurance for Employee/Spouse/Child.

• Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance options.

• 401K options (Roth/Traditional).

• A generous PTO plan recognizing your commitment and tenure (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.).

• Competitive annual bonuses above market standards.