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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** ASGN Incorporated
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Programming Tools, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Data Logging, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=951c4aab002fc9d0

## About the Role

An AI-driven cybersecurity company experiencing high growth is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or backend-adjacent cloud operations to join their fully remote team. This role will serve as the platform foundation owner within a high-velocity engineering team, building and improving the systems that allow engineers to ship safely and quickly across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and AI-enabled workflows., 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or backend-adjacent cloud operations
Prior experience working in a startup or high-growth environment
Hands-on expertise across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, secrets management, access controls, and observability
Proven track record owning production systems where reliability, security, and developer velocity all matter
Experience building internal developer tooling, platform automation, or AI-assisted development workflows
Security-minded approach to infrastructure including least privilege, auditability, and controlled production access
Background in cybersecurity or experience supporting cybersecurity-focused products is a strong plus
Familiarity with AI agent tooling and production model inference across hosted, GPU, or self-hosted serving stacks is a plus

## Description

Own and improve the platform foundation that helps a high-velocity engineering team ship safely across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, IaC, secrets, networking, access controls, CI/CD, observability, and production guardrails
Build internal tooling for an AI-enabled engineering workflow including automation, repo and CI feedback loops, agent-ready development environments, and safeguards that let engineers move quickly without weakening production discipline
Strengthen operational readiness through better logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, runbooks, and incident follow-up
Harden production access with least-privilege IAM, secure secret management, auditability, and controlled break-glass paths
Set pragmatic platform standards that help a small team move quickly today while avoiding infrastructure, reliability, and security debt tomorrow

 * For this position, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa. This job was first posted by CyberCoders on 07/27/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.Everforth CyberCoders is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer


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