Platform and Reliability Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid leave

Tuition assistance

Work-life programs

Dependent care

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, VA is seeking a Lead Platform and Reliability Engineer to build and run the secure, reliable foundation for enterprise AI deployments. You will provide cloud infrastructure, runtimes, model access, deployment pipelines, and observability to enable engineering teams to deliver AI solutions.

The role requires experience in cloud infrastructure, IaC, containers, SRE, logs/metrics, and LLM operations.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure in major cloud platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, containers, orchestration, and CI/CD.
• Experience applying SRE practices including alerting and disaster recovery.
• Experience centralized logs, metrics, traces and dashboards.
• Knowledge of LLM operational requirements and model gateways.
• Ability to document support responsibilities and coordinate handoffs.
• Bachelor's degree and eligibility for government clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate secure, reliable shared platform foundations.
• Provide cloud infrastructure, runtimes, model access, deployment pipelines, and observability.
• Automate environments and security controls; monitor availability, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Lead shared-platform incident response and recovery.
• Coordinate with AI/ Data/ Forward-Deployed Engineering to validate readiness.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as code

Containers

Orchestration

CI/CD pipelines

Security automation

Site reliability engineering

Logging & metrics

LLM ops knowledge

Python/Bash scripting

Documentation & handoffs

Clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

LangSmith

Langfuse

Job description

Platform and Reliability Engineer, Lead

The Opportunity: Build and operate the secure, reliable foundation for enterprise agentic AI. You will provide the cloud infrastructure, shared runtimes, model access, deployment pipelines, and observability services that enable engineering teams to deliver and operate AI solutions. You will automate environments and security controls, monitor availability, latency, throughput, token consumption, and cost, and lead shared-platform incident response and recovery. Working with AI Engineering, Data Engineering, and Forward-Deployed Engineering, you will validate operational readiness and maintain deployment standards and runbooks. Your accountability centers on shared platform reliability, security infrastructure, and production operations. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required. Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including networking, identity, secrets management, and access controls
• Experience with infrastructure as code, containers, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, including automated security and deployment checks
• Experience applying site reliability engineering practices, including service objectives, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
• Experience implementing centralized logs, metrics, distributed traces, and dashboards to diagnose production failures and performance issues
• Knowledge of LLM operational requirements, including model gateways, rate limits, retries, timeouts, runtime isolation, and consumption costs
• Ability to automate operational workflows using a language such as Python or Bash, and troubleshoot distributed systems
• Ability to document support responsibilities, evaluate readiness evidence, and coordinate technical handoffs across teams
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse, or comparable tools
• Experience operating model gateways or AI workloads and implementing LLMOps practices
• Experience with FinOps, automated recovery, performance testing, or secure enterprise environments

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees.

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

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