Senior Federal Platform Engineer & Cloud Automation

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(k) Plan

Paid PTO

Bonuses

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Keeper Security is seeking a Senior Program Engineer to lead federal platform initiatives spanning Engineering, Security, Compliance and Operations. You will drive the roadmap for FedRAMP High delivery, DoD IL5 programs, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation while maintaining alignment with regulatory requirements.

You will influence cross-functional teams, strengthen observability and drive automated, secure deployments in federal environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in federal IT, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering for government or regulated missions.
• 4+ years leading technical programs or cross-functional engineering projects in SaaS/cloud/cybersecurity environments.
• Experience delivering FedRAMP/DoD IL4/IL5, STIG or DoD Cloud SRG requirements.
• Strong experience with AWS services (ECS/EKS/Lambda/RDS/S3/IAM); GovCloud preferred.
• Familiarity with Terraform and cloud automation; CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Security-focused, compliant engineering practices in federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end federal platform initiatives across Engineering, Security, Compliance and Operations.
• Define program strategy, milestones and success criteria with cross-functional teams.
• Oversee cloud initiatives across AWS and federal environments ensuring security and resilience.
• Coordinate Infrastructure-as-Code for GovCloud and automated deployments.
• Drive disaster recovery planning, cross-region failover and resilience testing.
• Lead Zero Trust identity initiatives and FedRAMP/DoD compliance efforts.
• Collaborate to maintain audit readiness and security-by-design in all work.
• Mentor and grow Federal Platform Operations engineers.

Skills

Federal IT

Platform leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Security and compliance

Cross-functional

Hybrid/Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Keeper Security is seeking a Senior Program Engineer to lead federal platform initiatives spanning Engineering, Security, Compliance and Operations. You will drive the roadmap for FedRAMP High delivery, DoD IL5 programs, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation while maintaining alignment with regulatory requirements.

You will influence cross-functional teams, strengthen observability and drive automated, secure deployments in federal environments.