Senior Platform Engineer — Remote, GovCloud ML/AI Platform

Rackner, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly Pay

Fully Remote

401k matching up to 6%

PTO

Medical/Dental/Vision

Job summary

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve a secure, cloud-native platform for federal health missions. The role is remote (U.S.) with a requirement for U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will manage IaC and GitOps foundations, build a self-service, multi-tenant platform on AWS GovCloud, and lead MLOps/AI workloads with a focus on production readiness and strong documentation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering, with senior ownership of a production platform.
• Built an internal developer platform / PaaS for federal clients and taken it to production (ATO) in a federal program.

Responsibilities

• Own the IaC + GitOps foundation — evolve Terraform and ArgoCD (ApplicationSets) for a declarative, self-healing platform.
• Build and operate a multi-tenant, self-service platform with golden-path onboarding and internal tooling catalog.
• Run Kubernetes on AWS GovCloud with autoscaling and ingress across dev/pre-prod/production.
• Architect and deploy AIOps/MLOps for data science teams including GPU scheduling and notebooks.
• Enable the data lakehouse with Trino/Iceberg on Glue + S3 and orchestration pipelines.
• Deliver observability and SLOs with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
• Automate security and compliance — secrets, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation.
• Drive documentation and knowledge transfer with runbooks and standards.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders to translate mission needs into platform capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

Terraform

Python

CI/CD

AWS GovCloud

Documentation

Mentoring

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

Karpenter

Prometheus

Grafana

Dagster

dbt

SageMaker

EKS

S3

KEDA

Job description

Rackner, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve a secure, cloud-native platform for federal health missions. The role is remote (U.S.) with a requirement for U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will manage IaC and GitOps foundations, build a self-service, multi-tenant platform on AWS GovCloud, and lead MLOps/AI workloads with a focus on production readiness and strong documentation.