Senior Platform Engineer – Lead

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, and ongoing enhancement of secure, scalable cloud platforms that meet federal mission requirements.

• Take ownership of Infrastructure-as-Code standards and their implementation utilizing Terraform or equivalent tools.

• Create, automate, and sustain CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, secure, and consistent software delivery.

• Establish and monitor reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and observability.

• Oversee incident response, conduct root cause analyses, and facilitate postmortems for production incidents to drive enduring solutions.

• Develop automation to minimize manual tasks, enhance system resilience, and accelerate delivery timelines.

• Design runbooks and protocols for troubleshooting, maintenance, and disaster recovery processes.

• Assess emerging technologies through prototyping and proof-of-concept initiatives.

• Collaborate with development, architecture, security, and product teams to create integrated, production-ready solutions.

• Lead technical discussions, architecture evaluations, and platform decision-making processes.

• Mentor engineers while establishing standards and best practices in platform engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Candidates MUST BE US Citizens and capable of obtaining Public Trust clearance.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience) is required.

• A minimum of 9 years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership roles.

• Proven experience with governance processes, technical standards, formal change management, or shared enterprise services.

• Ability to identify dependencies and clearly communicate resource requirements, trade-offs, risks, and decisions to product leadership.

• Solid hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

• Demonstrated experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or similar tools.

• Experience in designing and managing workloads within a cloud environment (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure considered).

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.

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

• Basic understanding of databases and SQL.

• Experienced in troubleshooting production systems, performance tuning, and leading root cause analysis efforts.

• Knowledgeable in DevSecOps practices and secure infrastructure principles.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be detailed in the job post).

• Competitive Compensation Package.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability options.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• 401(k) plan with 4% matching contribution.

• Generous PTO vacation policy.

• Annual Continuing Education allowance.

• Annual Wellness Budget.

• Bonus Incentive Programs (including employee referrals and performance-based rewards).