📍 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.
