Senior Platform Engineer - Federal DevOps Leader (Remote)

Bixal; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex hours

401K with matching incentive

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Flex Spending Account

Company provided short-term disability

Job summary

Bixal seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to be the senior-most technical authority on a government agency’s internal developer platform, owning target-state architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards that ease secure production deployment for engineering teams.

You will work within DevSecOps/CI/CD environments (GitLab, Datadog, and allied tools), applying platform-as-product thinking and AI-assisted tooling to reduce friction across the developer journey.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least eight years of related experience, or equivalent.
• Experience designing and evolving internal platforms to improve delivery speed and reliability.
• Proven ability to standardize observability and release controls across applications.
• Hands-on platform leadership, setting standards and driving adoption.
• Experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, and Terraform-based patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own target-state platform architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards across the platform engineering effort.
• Serve as the senior-most technical authority on the platform build, providing technical direction to the Platform Enablement team.
• Design and evolve internal platform capabilities that improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across engineering teams.
• Establish infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, and secure provisioning patterns for mission-critical, FedRAMP-authorized systems.
• Standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications.
• Reduce operational toil by building self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns (golden-path templates, IaC modules).
• Act as a hands-on platform leader, setting standards, driving adoption, and preventing fragmentation across teams.
• Partner with the client’s Product Owner and Staff Technical Product Manager on platform roadmap and prioritization.
• Participate in two-week Agile sprints, architecture reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform.

Skills

Platform engineering

GitLab

Terraform

IaC

Observability

Leadership

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8+ years

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

Bixal seeks a Staff Platform Engineer to be the senior-most technical authority on a government agency’s internal developer platform, owning target-state architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards that ease secure production deployment for engineering teams.

You will work within DevSecOps/CI/CD environments (GitLab, Datadog, and allied tools), applying platform-as-product thinking and AI-assisted tooling to reduce friction across the developer journey.