Platform Engineer

Onward Legal Innovation; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Onward Legal Innovation has launched a new Platform Engineering team as part of a technology and AI platform transformation at a leading U.S. law firm. You’ll help build the internal developer platform, self-service tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud automation, and observability to support traditional apps and AI workloads.

This hybrid Washington, D.C. role offers a clear path to influence platform engineering, cloud, developer experience, and AI infrastructure across a global

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Strong production coding skills in Go and Python, plus Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Strong hands-on CI/CD and pipeline-building experience with YAML, plus Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Build reusable self-service tooling, APIs, CLIs, libraries, and platform services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Build modular cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform and Helm.
• Support workloads across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GitOps environments.
• Help build platform services for AI workloads including model inference, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Implement monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting across traditional and GenAI services.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to continuous reliability improvements.
• Automate security, operational, and developer workflows.

Skills

Go

Python

CI/CD YAML

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GitOps

Observability

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Flux

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Platform Engineer is required to join a new Platform Engineering team as part of a major technology and AI platform transformation at one of the largest and most prestigious U.S. and global law firms. You’ll help build the internal developer platform, self-service tooling, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud automation, and observability capabilities that will support both traditional applications and modern AI workloads.

This is an opportunity to join a new platform engineering function at the start of a major technology transformation, with real scope to influence how platform engineering, cloud, developer experience, and AI infrastructure are built across a global organization.

Washington, D.C. hybrid role / 1/2 day per week in the office. Compensation: $140,000–$180,000 annually + Bonus + Benefits.

Applicants must be eligible to work without sponsorship; H-1 B cannot be supported.

Key skills required for the Platform Engineer

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Strong production coding skills in Go and Python, plus Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Strong hands-on CI/CD and pipeline-building experience with YAML, plus Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, plus Helm, Ansible, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Exposure to AI / GenAI infrastructure, including retrieval/RAG, model gateways, evaluation frameworks, or agent-based systems, is highly advantageous.
• Experience with GitOps, ideally Argo CD or Flux.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of platform security, secrets management, policy-as-code, and SRE practices.

What you’ll do as a Platform Engineer

• Build reusable self-service tooling, APIs, CLIs, libraries, and platform services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Build modular cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform and Helm.
• Support workloads across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GitOps environments.
• Help build platform services for AI workloads including model inference, retrieval, orchestration, and evaluation.
• Implement monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting across traditional and GenAI services.
• Participate in incident response and contribute to continuous reliability improvements.
• Automate security, operational, and developer workflows.

You’ll work with technologies including Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GitHub Actions, GitOps, OpenTelemetry, and GenAI platforms, while gaining increasing end-to-end ownership as the team grows.

Locations:

Washington, D.C., hybrid with good flexibility to work from home