Platform Engineer: GovCloud & Self-Managed Kubernetes

Solace Corporation; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid-first

Growth mindset

Brilliant colleagues

Job summary

Solace Corporation is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate the Solace Cloud platform, focusing on self-managed deployments in customer accounts, sovereign clouds, and government environments.

You will own operational health, automate provisioning with IaC, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines, and help meet FedRAMP and security requirements. You will work across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, collaborate with security teams, and mentor

Qualifications

• This role requires US citizenship and eligibility for Security clearance.
• BS degree in Software, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or production engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: provisioning, networking, storage, RBAC, autoscaling, and troubleshooting in various distributions.
• Proficiency with Terraform for IaC and Helm for packaging and deploying apps.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and cloud networking knowledge (VPC/VNet, routing, DNS, TLS).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including government or sovereign variants.
• Experience with Vault or similar secrets-management tools, and CI/CD pipelines with automated tests.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and upgrade self-managed Solace Cloud environments in customer-controlled accounts and government clouds.
• Design and maintain infrastructure-as-code, Helm charts, and automation to provision Kubernetes clusters.
• Own operational health: monitoring, capacity, patching, cluster lifecycle, and upgrades.
• Participate in production support, incident response, and durable runbooks.
• Implement security baselines for regulated environments and manage credentials with Vault.
• Contribute to FedRAMP compliance efforts and audit support.
• Collaborate with customer security teams and translate constraints into configurations.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines and automated tests for infrastructure and platform code.
• Contribute to Java/Spring Boot microservices when boundaries meet infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD pipelines

HashiCorp Vault

Go / Python / Java

Linux fundamentals

Cloud networking

FedRAMP/government cloud knowledge

Education

BS degree in Software, Computer or Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

HashiCorp Vault

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Solace Corporation is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Cloud Infrastructure team. You will build, deploy, and operate the Solace Cloud platform, focusing on self-managed deployments in customer accounts, sovereign clouds, and government environments.

You will own operational health, automate provisioning with IaC, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines, and help meet FedRAMP and security requirements. You will work across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, collaborate with security teams, and mentor