A federal technology consultancyHiring

Senior Platform Engineer Lead

  • Remote, United States
  • Lead
  • Posted 5 days ago
In one line

Lead cloud platform design and reliability for federal systems, setting infrastructure standards and mentoring engineers.

About the role

Platform architecture, automation and incident response sit with this role, alongside setting reliability targets and reviewing architecture with development, security and product teams.

At a glance

Pay
Not stated in the posting
Remote scope
Remote, United States
Seniority
Lead
Skills
Terraform, CI/CD, SLIs, SLOs, Observability, Incident response
Posted
30 Oct 2026
Last checked
3 Nov 2026

What you will do

  • Lead architecture and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms for federal missions
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, repeatable delivery
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis and postmortems, and drive lasting fixes

What they look for

  • 9 or more years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE or a similar area
  • Comfort leading technical discussions and architecture reviews
  • Calm, methodical handling of production incidents
  • US citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience evaluating new technologies through prototypes and proofs of concept
  • Background mentoring engineers and setting platform standards

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Is this job fully remote, and from where?

Yes. The posting lists Senior Platform Engineer Lead as a remote role for candidates in the United States.

What does this job pay?

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What experience is needed?

It is a lead role. The posting asks for: 9 or more years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE or a similar area; comfort leading technical discussions and architecture reviews; calm, methodical handling of production incidents. Skills it names include Terraform, CI/CD, SLIs, SLOs.

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