Senior/ Staff Platform engineer

📍 Virginia / Remote

🏢 Ad-hoc short-notice access to Herndon, VA required

US Citizenship Required

We’re hiring a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer to help extend a production AI platform into highly secure US Government environments and support the growth of a US technical team.

This is not a generic DevOps or CI/CD role. We’re looking for a hands-on engineer who has personally built, deployed and operated production cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

Experience with GovCloud, FedRAMP, defence, national security or other highly regulated environments is a major advantage.

🛠 What You’ll Do

• Own and improve production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and repeatable deployment patterns
• Work across provisioning, deployment, security, reliability and operations
• Adapt an existing platform for US Government and highly secure environments
• Make technical decisions across infrastructure and deployment
• Help establish technical capability as the US team grows
• Remain hands-on while acting as a senior technical reference point

🔍 What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience owning production Kubernetes infrastructure
• Hands-on cloud engineering across AWS, Azure, GCP or comparable platforms
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi or equivalent
• Evidence of personally building, deploying and operating production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security and reliability
• Ability to work autonomously as a senior individual contributor

🛡 Highly Valuable Experience

• AWS GovCloud or similar government cloud environments
• FedRAMP
• US Government deployments
• Defence or national-security technology
• Classified, disconnected or highly regulated environments

An existing security clearance is helpful but not required.

Security Requirements

Candidates must:

• Be a US citizen
• Be eligible to obtain a US Government security clearance

📍 Location: Primarily remote, with Virginia-based candidates strongly preferred.

You must be able to reach the Herndon, Virginia area at short notice when required.

💰 Compensation

• $140,000 – $200,000 base salary
• Up to 25% annual bonus

⚡ Why This Role?

You’ll work on infrastructure supporting AI systems where security, reliability, sovereignty and deployment constraints genuinely matter.

This is a high-ownership opportunity spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, secure deployment and operational architecture while helping shape a growing US engineering capability.