Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – REMOTE

In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At Ana Vation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.

Ana Vation is seeking a REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep experience in Azure, AKS, IaC, and SREpractices. You will build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence forlegal investigations. Our environment is highly containerized, fully automated, and built around Azure services, AKS,Terraform/Terragrunt, and Git Ops workflows.

US Citizenship with a Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secret clearance and experience supporting the Federal Government is REQUIRED.

• Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting.
• Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Implement Git Ops with Argo CD and Git Hub workflows.
• Deploy and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Manage Azure networking, identity, and security (VNets, Private Link, RBAC, Key Vault).
• Run Azure data services:
  PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Redis, AI Search, Storage, ACR.
• Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, KQL dashboards, incident response, performance tuning.

• Minimum Qualifications (Education/Certications, Experience, etc):
  • Bachelors Degree in a relevant field
  • Five (5) years of hands-on experience cloud platform engineering, SRE, or Dev Ops roles
  • Experience supporting large, distributed systems within the Federal Government
• Clearance:
  • Minimum Public Trust; US Citizenship and ability to maintain a High Risk Public Trust designation is required
• Other Required Skills &
  
  Qualifications:
  • Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes operations. (AWS experience may be considered in lieu of Azure.)
  • Deep hands-on experience with containerization technologies:
    Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and modular IaC.
  • Strong Git Ops experience with Argo CD and Git Hub workflows.
  • Strong experience in platform observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL).
  • Self-motivation and self-sufficiency requiring minimal guidance to achieve technical objectives.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with diverse technical teams.
  • Continuous alignment with and adherence to Ana Vation’s core values.
• Location/
  
  Hours:
  • This position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere within the continental United States.
  • Regardless of location, this position requires full-time support during core Eastern Time business hours toalign with our Government customer in Washington, DC.
  • This position may require support outside of core business hours for outages, updates/upgrades, and other needs.

• Experience with Azure Government and/or AWS Gov Cloud/C2S/SC2S
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
• Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Administrator, and/or Developer)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
• IaC/Dev Ops certifications (Hashicorp/Terraform)
• AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Dev Ops Engineer Professional, Developer,and/or Sys Ops Administrator)
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies

$85,678.38 - $ a year

Please note: The listed salary range reflects our market-based compensation structure. Final compensation will depend on business needs, local market conditions, internal equity, and the selected candidate’s skills, education, and experience.

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
• 100% company…