Federal Cloud Platform Engineer (Remote)

Devopsroles

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Salary and equity
Health insurance
Flexible vacation
Parental leave
Remote work options

Job summary

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company seeking a Federal Platform Engineer to deploy and operate our NodeZero-based platform infrastructure in AWS and federal workloads. You will orchestrate cloud-native platforms with Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI, enabling scalable, secure environments across regions.

The role emphasizes automation, telemetry, and strong documentation while collaborating with engineering teams.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of DevOps/Platform engineering or related roles.
  • US Citizenship required and ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable, secure cloud-native platforms across AWS regions.
  • Improve development/deployment processes for fast, confident releases.
  • Create telemetry tooling to measure platform effectiveness.
  • Foster documentation culture (Confluence, docs-as-code).
  • Plan projects with Jira and Agile concepts.
  • Develop Terraform modules and Crossplane compositions.
  • Promote infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation.
  • Evaluate new tech and patterns for automation and hosting.

Skills

DevOps
Platform engineering
GoLang
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
GitLab CI/CD
CI/CD
Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or STEM
MS in Computer Science

Tools

GitLab CI/CD
Argo CD
Argo Workflows
Argo Events
Terraform
Crossplane
HashiCorp Vault
AWS
Ansible
Docker
Kubernetes

Job description

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company seeking a Federal Platform Engineer to deploy and operate our NodeZero-based platform infrastructure in AWS and federal workloads. You will orchestrate cloud-native platforms with Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI, enabling scalable, secure environments across regions.

The role emphasizes automation, telemetry, and strong documentation while collaborating with engineering teams.

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