Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

True Anomaly; Long Beach, Denver (CA, CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

HRA/HSA options

PTO and holidays

401(k)

Parental leave

Job summary

True Anomaly is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to guide the cloud foundation and tooling across the company. Hybrid role with on‑site work in Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO, focused on scalable, secure infrastructure.

You will architect and operate multi‑cloud environments, build self‑service provisioning, and contribute to CI/CD and developer experience, mentoring juniors and driving compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering.
• Experience deploying and running production apps on cloud.
• Experience designing cloud infra (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) proficiency.
• Strong CI/CD, testing and deployment practices.
• Networking basics and cloud networking familiarity.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate clearly.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain Top-Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational cloud infrastructure across the enterprise, owning significant systems end‑to‑end.
• Build and operate the foundational multi‑cloud environment, including account structure, guardrails, and shared networking and identity.
• Build self‑service experience for engineering teams to provision accounts and deploy onto paved roads.
• Author and maintain reusable infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform).
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards that scale across the enterprise.
• Create self‑service tooling and paved‑road patterns for provisioning and operating systems.
• Evaluate and select cloud services and tooling, guiding build‑vs‑buy decisions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Partner with security and IT to meet government security and compliance requirements.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD practices

Infrastructure as code

Production deployments

Networking fundamentals

Security clearance

Cross-team collaboration

Autonomy in fast-paced env

US citizenship

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Location

Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA

Our Mission

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

Our Values

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

Your Mission

As a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer you will be one of the first hires building the cloud infrastructure and tooling needed to scale our software operations across the company.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate foundational cloud infrastructure rolled out across the enterprise, owning significant systems end‑to‑end.
• Build and operate the foundational multi‑cloud environment, including account structure, guardrails, and shared networking and identity that every team builds on top of.
• Build the self‑service experience for engineering teams to provision accounts, bootstrap resources, and deploy onto paved roads, enabling rapid, governed development.
• Author and maintain reusable infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform) that other teams use.
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and deployment standards that scale across the enterprise and help drive adoption.
• Create self‑service tooling and paved‑road patterns that let teams provision, deploy, and operate systems without a central queue.
• Evaluate and select cloud services, infrastructure tooling, and platforms, guiding build‑vs‑buy decisions based on capability, compliance, and speed to value.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers through code review, design discussion, and pairing.
• Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure infrastructure meets government security and compliance requirements across data classification levels.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Strong software background, with experience deploying, testing, releasing, and running production applications on cloud.
• Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with production workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform) and authors reusable modules.
• Experience with modern CI/CD, continuous testing, and deployment practices.
• Ability to work across a broad technical surface area, moving between infrastructure, application development, and platform work.
• Depth in one or more of CI/CD and build/release tooling, cloud networking, infrastructure‑as‑code, or developer platforms, with familiarity across the rest.
• Trusted technical contributor who owns systems end‑to‑end, brings strong design judgment, and mentors juniors.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals (HTTP, ports, DNS, firewalls, cloud networking primitives).
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Comfort with autonomy in a fast‑paced environment where priorities shift.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Top‑Secret security clearance.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Enterprise experience building and operating infrastructure at scale in a high‑growth or large tech organization.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, service mesh, and artifact/registry management.
• Experience designing or improving developer experience or building core developer processes and automation.
• Familiarity with government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) and authorization frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800‑53, IL4/IL5).
• Experience deploying infrastructure in government, defense, or regulated environments with security and compliance constraints.
• Experience designing or maintaining an enterprise network.
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering, IAM/secrets management.
• Experience using AI‑powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine work.
• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal platform teams at high‑growth tech companies.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top‑Secret clearance.

Compensation

Base Salary: Denver – $120,000 – $170,000; Long Beach – $125,000 – $180,000.

Equity and benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401(k), and parental leave.

Additional Requirements

Work location: Long Beach, CA or Denver, CO. Hybrid schedule; at least 3 days per week on‑site required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

True Anomaly is committed to equal employment opportunity on any basis protected by applicable state and federal laws. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please let us know.