📍 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.

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