DevOps/Platform Engineer

Our client is hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our program team supporting a federal agency client’s large-scale digital services platform. You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and shared platform services that many engineering teams use to securely deliver public-facing digital services. You will be part of a platform engineering team focused on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud architecture, and federal compliance, and collaborates closely with software engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and security teams.

Platform Engineering * Design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting a shared platform. * Develop reusable infrastructure modules, libraries, and automation used across multiple engineering teams. Infrastructure & Automation * Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt). * Build and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure and supporting platform services. CI/CD & Software Delivery * Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins, or similar technologies. * Support GitOps deployment patterns and continuous delivery best practices. Reliability & Operations * Participate in a business-hours support rotation and production on-call responsibilities. * Troubleshoot production infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, deployment failures, and cloud services., Envoy, or API gateway technologies. * Proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages. * Building reusable GitHub Actions, composite actions, or self-hosted runners. * Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and compliance automation into CI/CD pipelines. * Supporting federal systems, including ATO processes, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, STIGs, or similar frameworks. * Observability platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of relevant experience; 8 additional years of experience may be substituted for the degree. * Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider. * Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes (Amazon EKS or equivalent), including clusters that other teams deploy to. * Strong proficiency with Terraform (Terragrunt preferred). * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms. * Strong Linux systems administration and shell scripting experience. * Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, and container networking. * Experience with Docker and container-based delivery. * U.S. citizenship; must be able to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust background investigation and agency-issued PIV credential. * Terragrunt in multi-account AWS environments. * Argo CD, GitOps workflows, or Argo Workflows. * HAProxy, OpenResty, NGINX