Platform Engineer

System One; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

System One is seeking a Platform Engineer to implement and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, manage IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, and support cloud-native delivery on AWS.

The role emphasizes embedding security across the lifecycle, automating deployments, and driving platform observability. Collaboration with federal stakeholders and solution architects is essential to align with governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, and Systems Manager.
• Experience building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience with IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar frameworks.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, and secure software delivery.
• Experience integrating security controls into pipelines (static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, etc.).
• Experience with AWS identity, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, and least-privilege security.
• Strong containerization experience (Docker, ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).
• Linux administration, scripting (Python/Bash).
• Familiarity with VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups, WAF, VPNs.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices including secure CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Develop and improve IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK for repeatable provisioning.
• Support cloud-native delivery using AWS services and container platforms.
• Standardize reusable pipeline templates and deployment patterns with engineering teams.
• Embed security early across the software delivery lifecycle with automated analysis and scans.
• Implement observability including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Manage secure environment configurations, access control, backup, and DR planning.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and federal stakeholders to align with governance standards.
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, and performance issues; drive automation and improvements.
• Maintain knowledge of SDLC, agile delivery, change management, and continuous improvement.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

IaC

AWS

Containerization

Observability

SDLC

Automation

Collaboration

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

EKS

CloudWatch

ELK

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

Platform Engineer

US Citizenship and the ability to obtain Public Trust is required

100% remote

W2 only, no C2C

Responsibilities/Requirements:

• Implement and maintain modern DevSecOps practices, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated build and deployment workflows, quality gates, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and release automation.
• Develop, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or comparable technologies to support repeatable, auditable, and compliant environment provisioning.
• Support cloud-native application delivery patterns using AWS services, container platforms, serverless services, managed databases, networking, identity and access management, logging, monitoring, and security services.
• Partner with software engineering teams to standardize reusable pipeline templates, deployment patterns, environment configurations, shared libraries, and automation scripts that improve delivery speed, consistency, and reliability.
• Embed security early and continuously across the software delivery lifecycle through automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, configuration validation, and compliance evidence generation.
• Implement and support observability practices, including centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, alerts, tracing, operational health checks, and production readiness monitoring across modernized and legacy-integrated capabilities.
• Support secure environment management, including configuration management, access control, network segmentation, encryption, secrets handling, backup considerations, disaster recovery support, and change/release coordination.
• Collaborate with solution architects, security teams, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise architecture guidance, FedRAMP Moderate expectations, NIST controls, governance standards, and program security requirements.
• Troubleshoot platform, pipeline, deployment, integration, performance, and operational issues; identify root causes; implement automation or process improvements; and support continuous improvement of the engineering platform.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of experience in platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, site reliability engineering, systems engineering, or related technical roles.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, and Systems Manager.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing and supporting DevSecOps practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and secure software delivery.
• Experience integrating security controls into pipelines, including static code analysis, dependency scanning, container/image scanning, infrastructure scanning, secrets detection, artifact management, and security quality gates.
• Experience with AWS identity, access management, networking, logging, monitoring, encryption, secrets management, and security services, including practical application of least privilege and secure‑by‑default patterns.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies including Docker and container orchestration platforms such as ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes.
• Experience managing application deployments, environment configuration, release automation, and production support activities.
• Experience implementing platform observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards using tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments, including disaster recovery and operational readiness activities.
• Experience with Linux administration, shell scripting, and automation using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience troubleshooting infrastructure, networking, application, and deployment issues across distributed cloud environments.
• Familiarity with networking concepts including VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups, WAF, VPNs, and private connectivity patterns.
• Ability to create reusable platform patterns, pipeline templates, runbooks, automation scripts, environment standards, and technical documentation for engineering teams.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, environment configuration, performance, availability, access, and integration issues across complex technical environments.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), agile delivery, release management, change management, operational readiness, and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, architects, security teams, vendors, operations teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Federal stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills with a focus on automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts, platform standards, operational issues, and risk trade-offs clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience supporting federal or government IT programs involving cloud modernization, DevSecOps implementation, platform engineering, security compliance, shared services, or phased capability delivery.
• Experience supporting federal cloud environments, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800‑53, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Systems Manager, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, ECR, or comparable services.
• Experience with Keycloak, OAuth/OIDC, SSO, and enterprise identity platforms.
• Experience with artifact repositories, dependency management, container registries, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, signing, provenance, or secure release promotion practices.
• Experience with observability and reliability engineering practices, including service‑level indicators, service‑level objectives, incident response, runbooks, automated recovery, and production readiness reviews.
• Experience supporting multi‑vendor delivery within a common platform architecture, including alignment to shared DevSecOps standards, environment management, release readiness, security expectations, and technical governance forums.
• Cloud, DevSecOps, security, or agile certifications preferred, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist, Terraform Associate, Security+, SAFe, Certified ScrumMaster, or similar credentials.
• Experience using generative AI and AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, solution design, code generation and modernization, automated testing, documentation, code review, troubleshooting, and release readiness, while applying appropriate security, privacy, governance, and human‑review controls.
• Experience prototyping or integrating generative AI capabilities using AWS Bedrock or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Understanding of privacy, security, data‑use restrictions, and responsible AI considerations in federal or regulated environments.
• Experience with AI evaluation, prompt and model versioning, guardrails, monitoring, human‑in‑the‑loop review, and mitigation of hallucination or unsafe output risks.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.