Federal Platform Engineer

• We are looking for a Federal Platform Engineer to help lead the deployment and operation of our product infrastructure in multiple federal environments ranging from FedRAMP through Classified workloads
• Your goal will be to help build, maintain and improve our platform running in AWS
• Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and tools like Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI will be essential in creating scalable and secure systems that enable innovative experimentation
• Join us in shaping the future of our platform, driving growth and empowering developers with a flexible and efficient environment
• Implement highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native application platforms that host core company applications, toolings, and other services vital to enabling our product to perform in all AWS regions where we are deployed
• Identify, design, and deploy improvements in development and deployment processes so engineers can begin deploying anytime with confidence
• Design and implement tooling for the internal platform to collect telemetry data used to gauge its effectiveness in supporting H3’s engineers
• Help create an effective documentation culture within the Engineering Organization (Confluence, Documentation as code)
• Participate in effective project management and work allocation (Jira, Agile Concepts)
• Create Terraform modules and Crossplane compositions that are easily consumed by all of engineering
• Be a positive example of automation for infrastructure-as-code, platform operations, and overall CI/CD methodologies
• Evaluate new technologies and patterns for automation, application hosting, and improving infrastructure provisioning. Recommend and define the work needed
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Benefits

• Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career advancement opportunities
• Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the convenience and work-life balance that comes with remote work
• Inclusive and Diverse Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive

• Ability to manage concurrent initiatives and use effective judgment in prioritization and time management
• Strong understanding and experience with solution design and flow
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform engineering, or related roles
• Strong technical documentation and communication
• Creative, self-motivated, pragmatic, disciplined, detail and results oriented
• Excellent analytical/problem solving ability
• Bachelors in Computer Science or STEM or equivalent experience
• Cloud Technologies:
• SSO (OIDC, SAML, Okta, Social Sign-ins)
• Experience using Claude Code or other AI-enabled development tooling
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Event-Driven Architecture (SQS, EventBus)
• Logging and Metrics (Datadog, OpenSearch)
• Networking (VPC, VPCe, RT53)
• MS in Computer Science a plus
• User Management (Cognito, Organizations, SSO)
• Security (IAM Roles and Policies, KMS, Cloudtrail)
• Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secret Manager, External Secrets Operator)
• Configuration Management (Ansible)
• US Citizen Required
• Argo Events, Argo Workflows, Argo CD
• Shell Scripting
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane)
• Storage (S3, EBS)
• Programming Languages (GoLang required, Python a plus)
• Compute (EC2, Lambda, EKS)
• Kubernetes (RKE2, K3S, EKS)
• AWS Core Services
• Container Engines (Docker)
• Possess or ability to gain and maintain Top Secret security clearance required
• Database (AuroraRDS - Postgres)
• We encourage all qualified candidates to apply for open positions with our company and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences
• We are a fully remote company, and this job may require up to 5% of travel to be successful. Job-related travel expenses are reviewed and must be approved by your manager
• Experience in FedRAMP, CC SRG, NIST 800-53, or Authority to Operate (ATO) process