Remote Platform Engineer - DevSecOps & AWS Expert

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

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.