Senior Platform Engineer: CI/CD, Terraform & Datadog

Bixal; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; 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

Commuter benefits

PTO

11 Paid holidays

Job summary

Bixal, headquartered in Fairfax, VA, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and the observability foundation used by engineering teams. You will work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver templates and automation, supporting on-call rotations and continuous improvement.

This role supports a mission-critical federal platform; Bixal’s culture emphasizes learning, growth, and delivering human-centered solutions while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least eight years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines and infrastructure automation for high-availability systems.
• Ability to improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency.
• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting for effective incident response and production operations.
• Strong automation skills to eliminate recurring operational work and boost team velocity.
• Independent delivery of platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity.
• Solid understanding of Datadog, GitLab CI/CD, and FedRAMP-authorized toolchains.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and Terraform templates.
• Implement and maintain Datadog observability including alerting and SLOs.
• Support environment automation, on-call rotations, and golden-path delivery.
• Improve environment stability and deployment safety across agency services.
• Implement monitoring and incident response tooling for production operations.
• Automate recurring work to improve team velocity.
• Deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity.
• Participate in two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

GitLab CI/CD

Datadog

Terraform

Automation

Platform reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Datadog

Job description

Bixal, headquartered in Fairfax, VA, is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and the observability foundation used by engineering teams. You will work hands-on with Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog to deliver templates and automation, supporting on-call rotations and continuous improvement.

This role supports a mission-critical federal platform; Bixal’s culture emphasizes learning, growth, and delivering human-centered solutions while