Sr. Platform Engineer

The Summit
Fairfax, VA, United States
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$140,000.0 - $155,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Software as a Service DevOps Disaster Recovery Machine Learning Performance Tuning Prometheus Software Requirements Analysis Workflow Management Systems Data Logging Delivery Pipeline
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Grafana Cloudformation Containerization Kubernetes Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Terraform Docker

Job description

Immediate need for a Sr. Platform Engineer for a London based company specializing in AI. This is a remote role. MUST live in the East Coast, preferably in Washington/DC Metro area, MD, and VA. Responsibilities:

  • Drive the development of scalable, high-performance infrastructure to support mission-critical applications, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency across all systems.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating code deployment processes to streamline delivery while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers. machine learning engineers and product managers, to translate system requirements into scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions.
  • Lead by example through mentoring and advocating for DevOps best practices, ensuring infrastructure is maintainable, reusable, and secure.
  • Optimize system performance through advanced monitoring, logging, and observability techniques, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues.
  • Stay at the forefront of DevOps tools and methodologies, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to continuously improve the infrastructure stack.
  • Write and maintain clean, scalable, and testable infrastructure code that adheres to modern DevOps standards, ensuring a robust and secure production environment., A Senior Full-Stack Engineer will lead the architecture and development of a multi-tenant SaaS platform designed for regulated financial and government procurement workflows. This …
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Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure for production systems.
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g Terraform, CloudFormation) with extensive hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery of code across multiple environments.
  • Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) Deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Argo, including experience with scaling and securing containerized workloads.
  • Experience with high-availability systems, disaster recovery strategies, and building infrastructure that meets rigorous uptime and performance requirements.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with software engineers, product teams, and leadership to align infrastructure goals with business objectives.

Nice-to-have requirements:

  • Experience with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and CMMC, including implementing and maintaining infrastructure controls to meet certification requirements.

Benefits & conditions

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  • Washington DC
  • $110.00 per hour Join a team dedicated to transforming operations through an AI-native platform that replaces traditional spreadsheet methods with real-time dashboards and agentic workflows. In thi…

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