Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

US Citizenship and the ability to obtain Public Trust is required 100% remote W2 only, no C2C

Responsibilities/Requirements:

• Implement and maintain modern Dev Sec Ops  practices, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, quality gates, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and release automation.
• Develop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, or comparable technologies to support repeatable, auditable, and compliant environment provisioning.
• Support cloud-native application delivery patterns using AWS services, container platforms, serverless services, managed databases, networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and security services.
• Partner with software engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates, deployment patterns, environment configurations, shared libraries, and automation scripts that improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.
• Embed security early and continuously across the software delivery lifecycle through automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, configuration validation, and compliance evidence generation.
• Implement and support observability practices, including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, operational health checks, and production readiness monitoring across modernized and legacy-integrated capabilities.
• Support secure environment management, including configuration management, access control, network segmentation, encryption, secrets handling, backup considerations, disaster recovery support, and change/release coordination.
• Collaborate with solution architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise architecture guidance, FedRAMP Moderate expectations, NIST controls, governance standards, and program security requirements.
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, integration, performance, and operational issues; identify root causes; implement automation or process improvements; and support continuous improvement of the engineering platform.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of experience in platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Cloud Watch, IAM, and Systems Manager.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops, or similar tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing and supporting Dev Sec Ops  practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure software delivery.
• Experience integrating security controls into pipelines, including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, secrets detection, artifact management, and security quality gates.
• Experience with AWS identity, access management, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets management, and security services, including practical application of least privilege and secure-by-default patterns.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies including Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Experience managing application deployments, environment configuration, release automation, and production support activities.
• Experience implementing platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards using tools such as Cloud Watch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments, including disaster recovery and operational readiness activities.
• Experience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across distributed cloud environments.
• Familiarity with networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups, WAF, VPNs, and private connectivity patterns.
• Ability to create reusable platform patterns, pipeline templates, runbooks, automation scripts, environment standards, and technical documentation for engineering teams.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, environment configuration, performance, availability, access, and integration issues across complex technical environments.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile delivery, release management, change management, operational readiness, and continuous…