Sr Platform Engineer Lead

Role overview

Lead the engineering of secure, dependable cloud platforms that support critical public-sector systems. This senior technical role sets platform direction, improves deployment and operational practices, leads incident response, and mentors engineers across partner teams.

Responsibilities

- Design, build, and evolve scalable cloud platforms, including infrastructure-as-code standards and implementations. - Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation for reliable, repeatable software delivery. - Define and track reliability practices such as service objectives, monitoring, alerting, and observability. - Lead production incident response, root-cause investigations, postmortems, and lasting corrective work. - Create operational runbooks and disaster recovery procedures; assess new technologies through prototypes. - Coordinate architecture decisions with development, security, product, and operations teams, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

- US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance. - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - At least nine years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership. - Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, CI/CD tools, and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools. - Experience operating cloud workloads; AWS is preferred, while GCP or Azure experience is relevant. - Familiarity with observability tooling, scripting in Bash, Python, or Go, SQL, production troubleshooting, and secure infrastructure practices. - Strong communication and technical leadership, including experience with governance, change management, or enterprise standards.

Nice to have

- Federal agency experience, FedRAMP or ATO familiarity, or knowledge of Zero Trust principles. - People management, stakeholder coordination, or cross-team dependency management experience. - Experience with Harness, service mesh, GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, or serverless platforms. - Certifications such as CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS DevOps Engineer.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote work; hybrid arrangements are specified separately. - Listed annual salary range of $140,000–$200,000, depending on experience and other factors. - Medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; employee assistance program; and a 401(k) with 4% matching. - Paid time off, continuing education support, wellness budget, and bonus incentives.