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# REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

- **Company:** AnaVation, LLC
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, PostgreSQL, Log Analysis, Octopus Deploy, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Redis, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Kusto Query Language, Search Technologies, Cloud Platform System, Azure Data Factory, Grafana, Containerization, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Azure AKS, Terraform, Docker, Key Vault
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-cloud-platform-engineer-remote-anavation-10542041

## About the Role

* Bachelors Degree in a relevant field
 * Five (5) years of hands-on experience cloud platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps 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 GitOps experience with Argo CD and GitHub 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 AnaVation'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 to align 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 GovCloud/C2S/SC2S
 * Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
 * Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Administrator, and/or Developer)
 * Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
 * IaC/DevOps certifications (Hashicorp/Terraform)
 * AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Developer, and/or SysOps Administrator)
 * Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies Benefits

## Description

AnaVation is seeking a REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep experience in Azure, AKS, IaC, and SRE practices. You will build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence for legal investigations. Our environment is highly containerized, fully automated, and built around Azure services, AKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, and GitOps workflows.

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

What you will be doing

 * Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting.
 * Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt.
 * Implement GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub 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.