Remote Senior Platform Engineer - CI/CD & IaC Expert

Bixal; United States; Remote; USD 145,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

401K with matching incentive

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Company provided short-term disability

Life insurance

Commuter benefits

PTO

11 Paid holidays

Job summary

Bixal is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and observability for a federal client’s developer platform. You’ll work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver golden-path templates and automated environments that enable rapid, reliable software delivery. This is a fully remote position across the U.S.

with occasional travel to Washington, D.C. for on-site sessions. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 8+ years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience building delivery pipelines and infrastructure automation for high-availability systems.
• Ability to improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency.
• Experience with monitoring/alerting for incident response and production operations.
• Experience with AWS cloud environments and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and Terraform templates for the engineering platform.
• Implement and maintain observability on Datadog, including instrumentation and alerting.
• Support environment automation and golden-path delivery.
• Improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency across agency services.
• Deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity.
• Participate in two‑week sprints, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews with the Platform Enablement team.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Observability

Terraform

Datadog

GitLab

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

GitLab

AWS

Job description

Bixal is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and observability for a federal client’s developer platform. You’ll work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver golden-path templates and automated environments that enable rapid, reliable software delivery. This is a fully remote position across the U.S.

with occasional travel to Washington, D.C. for on-site sessions. U.S.