Senior DevOps Engineer – FedRAMP Platform Lead (Remote)

Piper Companies; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Devops Engineer to join a leading cloud software organization supporting highly regulated federal environments. The Senior Devops Engineer will shape the architecture and technical direction of platform services focused on FedRAMP High and IL5 initiatives, driving automation, platform reliability, and scalable deployment capabilities across engineering teams.

You will define strategy for Platform Services, own deployment workflows, modernize release processes,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform/SRE/DevOps roles.
• Strong programming background in Python/Go/Java.
• Deep Kubernetes and ArgoCD expertise.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• AWS and cloud-native platforms.
• FedRAMP High/IL5 preferred.
• Ability to influence architecture across teams.
• Experience in regulated environments preferred.
• Strong focus on security, observability and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments.
• Own architectural decisions across centralized platform APIs, reusable CI/CD components, deployment workflows, and automated service onboarding capabilities.
• Lead the modernization of manual release and promotion processes through automated, policy-driven delivery pipelines.
• Build and establish "golden path" deployment frameworks that enable engineering teams to rapidly and reliably deploy applications onto the platform.
• Develop standards for deployment validation, operational readiness, audit compliance, change control, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to align platform capabilities, resolve dependencies, and drive technical decision-making.
• Lead architecture and design reviews focused on security, compliance, observability, reliability, and operational ownership.

Skills

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

Platform engineering

SRE

Automation

Security/compliance

Tools

Git tooling

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Devops Engineer to join a leading cloud software organization supporting highly regulated federal environments. The Senior Devops Engineer will shape the architecture and technical direction of platform services focused on FedRAMP High and IL5 initiatives, driving automation, platform reliability, and scalable deployment capabilities across engineering teams.

You will define strategy for Platform Services, own deployment workflows, modernize release processes,