Remote Senior Federal Platform Engineer – DevOps

Keeper Security, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401K (Roth/Traditional)

Generous PTO

Employer Paid Life Insurance

Short/Long Term Disability

Job summary

Keeper Security is seeking a Senior Federal Platform Engineer to support deployment, operation, and sustainment of Keeper solutions across U.S. Government environments, including IL5, IL6, and classified networks.

This is a 100% remote position with travel as needed. The role combines DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, and site reliability responsibilities, focusing on restricted environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Release Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical role.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating systems in IL5, IL6, FedRAMP High, classified, or similarly restricted government environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment workflows, and production change management.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud and/or Azure Government.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of secure configuration, patching, logging, access control, and operational hardening practices.
• Experience with observability, including logs, metrics, alerting, and production troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with federal security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and related operational controls.
• Experience working in environments with strict change control, limited access, and formal release processes.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, applications, networking, and deployment pipelines.
• Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to support scripting, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational analysis.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Keeper is FedRAMP authorized; therefore all applicants must be a U.S. Person.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for federal environments
• Support software releases, deployment execution, cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-release monitoring across IL5, IL6, and classified networks
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
• Maintain hardened infrastructure, configuration baselines, patching processes, and operational controls for restricted environments
• Troubleshoot complex deployment, infrastructure, application, and platform issues in coordination with Engineering and Security teams
• Build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational telemetry to improve system visibility and reliability
• Support incident response, recovery, postmortems, and corrective actions for federal platform environments
• Partner with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to improve deployment readiness, operability, and release quality
• Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, operational procedures, and configuration records for federal systems
• Support continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and authorization activities by producing required technical evidence and artifacts
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance drift detection, and system configuration validation
• Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to improve automation, troubleshooting, documentation, scripting, and operational efficiency

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Python

Bash/PowerShell

Scripting automation

FedRAMP/NIST RMF

Top Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Kubernetes

Job description

Keeper Security is seeking a Senior Federal Platform Engineer to support deployment, operation, and sustainment of Keeper solutions across U.S. Government environments, including IL5, IL6, and classified networks.

This is a 100% remote position with travel as needed. The role combines DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, and site reliability responsibilities, focusing on restricted environments.