Senior Platform Engineer CI/CD, IaC & Observability (Remote)

Bixal; Reston (VA); 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

Short-term disability and life保险

Job summary

Bixal is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and the observability foundation for a federal platform. You’ll work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver golden-path templates and automation for the client’s developer platform. The role is fully remote in the U.S.

with potential on-site travel to Washington, DC. Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related experience are expected, along with strong automation and cloud skills in AWS and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience building delivery pipelines and infrastructure automation for high-availability systems.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting for incident response and production operations.
• Solid understanding of Datadog, GitLab and FedRAMP-authorized toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and IaC templates.
• Implement and maintain observability on Datadog including alerts and SLOs.
• Support environment automation and golden-path delivery.
• Improve environment stability and deployment safety across services.
• Participate in two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews.

Skills

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

AWS

Automation

Collaboration

FedRAMP

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Datadog

AWS

FedRAMP

Job description

Bixal is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and the observability foundation for a federal platform. You’ll work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver golden-path templates and automation for the client’s developer platform. The role is fully remote in the U.S.

with potential on-site travel to Washington, DC. Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of related experience are expected, along with strong automation and cloud skills in AWS and