Senior Platform Engineer

BAM Technologies, LLC; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote position

Job summary

BAM Technologies, LLC seeks a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to own and harden a critical cloud infrastructure stack, ensuring compliance with federal requirements. You will manage GitHub Enterprise, AWS GovCloud (US), and EKS/Kubernetes, while advancing Terraform modules and policy-as-code guardrails.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in platform or SRE roles, strong AWS and security fundamentals, and the ability to operate in regulated government environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Platform/Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or SRE with hands-on ownership of production environments.
• Experience administering GitHub Enterprise at an organizational level.
• Expert-level Kubernetes/EKS and expert-level Terraform.
• Strong AWS experience and solid cloud security fundamentals.
• Direct experience supporting GCC High, GovCloud, or other regulated/government-compliant environments.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance if needed.
• Must be US citizen

Responsibilities

• Administer and harden our GitHub Enterprise Server baseline: org/repo policies, SSO/SCIM, audit logging, branch protections, secret scanning, and access controls.
• Own the AWS GovCloud (US) infrastructure supporting regulated services and integrations with Microsoft 365 GCC High, with deep ownership of Amazon EKS / Kubernetes.
• Maintain and extend existing Terraform modules and build new ones as the environment evolves.
• Apply security-by-design across identity, networking, encryption, and secrets management.
• Continuously validate and remediate the environment against federal requirements and IL4+ security baseline, including NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRAMP-aligned controls, and DISA STIGs.
• Maintain policy-as-code guardrails to automatically enforce CMMC and other compliance rules across Terraform-managed infrastructure.
• Monitor, patch, and improve reliability of the platform through automation and operational best practices.
• Respond to and remediate audit findings and vulnerability scan results in a timely manner.

Skills

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Enterprise

Clearance eligible

US citizen

GovCloud

NIST/FedRAMP

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer

BAM is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary firm with leading-edge skills in information technology, software development and applied research. Serving government and commercial markets, BAM is committed to its customers and to delivering strong leadership, sound solutions, and innovative thinking.

BAM is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to own and administer a critical part of our infrastructure and keep it continuously compliant with federal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer and harden our GitHub Enterprise Server baseline: org/repo policies, SSO/SCIM, audit logging, branch protections, secret scanning, and access controls.
• Own the AWS GovCloud (US) infrastructure supporting our regulated services and integrations with Microsoft 365 GCC High, with deep ownership of Amazon EKS / Kubernetes.
• Maintain and extend our existing Terraform modules and build new ones as the environment evolves.
• Apply security-by-design across identity, networking, encryption, and secrets management.
• Continuously validate and remediate the environment against its applicable federal requirements and IL4+ security baseline, including NIST 800-53, CMMC, FedRAMP-aligned controls, and relevant DISA STIGs, while maintaining supporting evidence and documentation.
• Maintain policy-as-code guardrails to automatically enforce CMMC and other compliance rules across our Terraform-managed infrastructure.
• Monitor, patch, and improve reliability of the platform through strong automation and operational best practices.
• Respond to and remediate audit findings and vulnerability scan results in a timely manner.

Qualifications

To excel in this role, candidates should possess the following:

• 7+ years in Platform/Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with hands-on ownership (not just oversight) of production environments.
• Experience administering GitHub Enterprise (or a comparable enterprise SCM platform) at an organizational level.
• Expert-level Kubernetes/EKS and expert-level Terraform.
• Strong AWS experience and solid cloud security fundamentals.
• Direct experience supporting GCC High, GovCloud, or other regulated/government-compliant environments.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance if needed
• Must be US citizen

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AWS GovCloud (US); Azure Government / Microsoft 365 GCC High a plus.
• Experience implementing policy-as-code (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, Checkov, or similar) to enforce compliance guardrails.
• AWS Professional certs, CKA/CKS, GitHub Advanced Security certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
• Familiarity with NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, or CMMC.

This is a remote position