Remote Senior Platform Lead, Cloud & DevOps

capitaltg; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

401(k) matching

Wellness budget

Job summary

capitaltg seeks a senior engineer to lead secure, dependable cloud platforms for critical public-sector systems. You will set platform direction, improve deployment and operational practices, oversee incident response, and mentor engineers across partner teams.

You will design scalable cloud platforms with IaC, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability through SLOs, monitoring, and runbooks. Strong leadership and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Minimum nine years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure with leadership.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, CI/CD tools, and Terraform or similar.
• Experience operating cloud workloads (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure relevant).
• Strong communication and technical leadership, governance, or enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable cloud platforms with IaC standards.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation for reliable delivery.
• Define reliability practices: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, observability.
• Lead production incident response, RCAs, and postmortems.
• Create runbooks and disaster recovery procedures; prototype new tech.
• Coordinate architecture decisions with teams and mentor engineers.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Linux

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Bash

Python

Go

SQL

Observability tooling

Communication

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Harness

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Job description

capitaltg seeks a senior engineer to lead secure, dependable cloud platforms for critical public-sector systems. You will set platform direction, improve deployment and operational practices, oversee incident response, and mentor engineers across partner teams.

You will design scalable cloud platforms with IaC, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability through SLOs, monitoring, and runbooks. Strong leadership and collaboration are essential.