Senior Platform Engineer — Secure Gov Cloud & Kubernetes

Acceler8 Talent; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is hiring a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer to extend a production AI platform into secure US Government environments and grow a US technical team.

This hands-on role focuses on production Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code, with GovCloud, FedRAMP, and national-security exposure as advantages. Location is primarily remote, with Virginia-based candidates preferred and ability to reach Herndon on short notice.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building, deploying and operating production cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Experience with GovCloud, FedRAMP or other regulated environments.
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi.
• Ability to work autonomously as a senior IC.
• Experience owning production Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Security-focused with emphasis on reliability and sovereignty.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Work across provisioning, deployment, security, reliability and operations.
• Adapt an existing platform for US Government and highly secure environments.
• Make technical decisions across infrastructure and deployment.
• Help establish technical capability as the US team grows.
• Remain hands-on while serving as senior technical reference point.
• Strong production Kubernetes ownership and cloud engineering across AWS, Azure, GCP.

Skills

Kubernetes infra

Cloud infrastructure

Autonomous senior IC

Security & reliability

Government/regulated envs

ProductionOps

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

Job description

Acceler8 Talent is hiring a Senior / Staff Platform Engineer to extend a production AI platform into secure US Government environments and grow a US technical team.

This hands-on role focuses on production Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code, with GovCloud, FedRAMP, and national-security exposure as advantages. Location is primarily remote, with Virginia-based candidates preferred and ability to reach Herndon on short notice.