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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Platform Engineer - **Company:** Bixal Solutions Incorporated - **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $145,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Gitlab, Gitlab-ci, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=850d1fdb06bf4dfb ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree and at least eight (8) years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. * Hands-on experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines, infrastructure automation, and shared platform services for high-availability systems. * Demonstrated ability to improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency. * Experience implementing monitoring and alerting that supports effective incident response and production operations. * Strong automation skills to eliminate recurring operational work and improve team velocity. * Able to independently deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity. * Solid understanding of Datadog, GitLab CI/CD, and FedRAMP-authorized toolchains. * Must be able to obtain and maintain a Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust clearance. Nice to Have Skills and Experience: * Experience with Terraform-based golden-path/IaC module design in a federal or regulated environment. * Exposure to AI-assisted coding tools for boilerplate or IaC generation. * Prior federal or large-scale enterprise platform engineering experience. ## Description We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate the CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and observability foundation that engineering teams rely on daily. You'll work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver golden-path templates and environment automation, supporting on-call rotations and continuous improvement of our client's developer platform. This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a mission-critical federal platform that aligns with Bixal's mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success., * Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Terraform templates supporting the engineering platform. * Implement and maintain observability on Datadog, including instrumentation, alerting, and service-level objectives. * Support environment automation, on-call rotations, and golden-path delivery. * Improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency across agency services. * Implement monitoring and alerting that support effective incident response and production operations. * Eliminate recurring operational work through automation, improving team velocity. * Deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity. * Participate in two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews with the Platform Enablement team. * Other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform. ## Related Videos - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Modern DevOps for IoT Devices and More](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1805-wearedevelopers-live-modern-devops-for-iot-devices-and-more) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [From Pipelines to Platforms: How DevOps Automation Becomes a Force Multiplier at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1946-from-pipelines-to-platforms-how-devops-automation-becomes-a-force-multiplier-at-scale) - [Enabling automated 1-click customer deployments with built-in quality and security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/83-enabling-automated-1-click-customer-deployments-with-built-in-quality-and-security) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 166: Sycophancy, Zip bombs and AI Native Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/585-dev-digest-166-sycophancy-zip-bombs-and-ai-native-development) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer)