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Federal Platform Engineer

US, Remote🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the deployment and operation of product infrastructure in multiple federal environments (FedRAMP through Classified) on AWS, building scalable and secure systems for autonomous pentests and assessment operations.

Role type

Senior IC Federal Platform Engineer

Builds

Production-safe autonomous pentests and assessment operations platform running on AWS

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Infrastructure / Federal Government

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

AWS Core Services, Kubernetes (RKE2, K3S, EKS), Terraform, Crossplane, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, GoLang, Python, Shell Scripting, Docker, Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secret Manager), SSO (OIDC, SAML), Logging and Metrics (Datadog, OpenSearch), Event-Driven Architecture

Preferred skills

AI-enabled development tooling (Claude Code), Argo Events, Argo Workflows, Argo CD, FedRAMP experience, CC SRG, NIST 800-53, Authority to Operate (ATO) process

Technologies

AWS (EC2, Lambda, EKS, S3, EBS, AuroraRDS, VPC, SQS, Cognito), HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, Crossplane, Ansible, GitLab CI, Datadog, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Implement highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native application platforms; Identify, design, and deploy improvements in development and deployment processes; Design and implement tooling for internal platform telemetry; Create Terraform modules and Crossplane compositions; Evaluate new technologies and patterns for automation and infrastructure provisioning

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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