Senior Platform Infra Engineer – Kubernetes, GitOps & Edge IoT

Quartermaster AI; Virginia; On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Quartermaster AI seeks a Senior Internal Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate internal platform infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including Gov variants. You will partner with engineering and security to enable GitOps delivery, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes operations with strong observability.

The role supports edge networking, IoT, streaming, and ML workloads in remote sensor systems, emphasizing secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure across multiple environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure/platform/SRE roles with direct ownership of production systems.
• Deep Azure experience, including high-security and regulated environments (Azure Gov strongly preferred).
• Practical AWS experience, especially with IoT services, Kinesis, and event/stream-processing architectures.
• Expert-level Kubernetes operations experience and strong Helm experience.
• Strong GitOps background and a track record improving delivery safety and speed.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code expertise with OpenTofu/Terraform and policy-oriented workflows.
• Strong experience using observability platforms w/ Grafana (preferred) and modern telemetry practices.
• Experience with edge networking, distributed edge deployments, and remote sensor telemetry pipelines.
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads and secure data processing at cloud and edge.
• Demonstrated security depth in IAM, network segmentation, zero trust, secrets management, encryption, and policy as code.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate secure, multi-environment infrastructure across AWS Gov, Azure Gov, and standard AWS/Azure.
• Build GitOps pipelines and reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules with CI validation.
• Operate Kubernetes platforms and improve reliability via SLOs, postmortems, and automation.
• Develop observability with Grafana and modern telemetry (metrics, logs, traces, alerts).
• Manage edge networking and IoT/streaming pipelines for remote sensor data.
• Support secure ML workloads and strengthen platform security across identity, secrets, policy, and compliance controls.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Tools

Grafana

Helm

OpenTofu

Terraform

Job description

Quartermaster AI seeks a Senior Internal Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate internal platform infrastructure across AWS and Azure, including Gov variants. You will partner with engineering and security to enable GitOps delivery, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes operations with strong observability.

The role supports edge networking, IoT, streaming, and ML workloads in remote sensor systems, emphasizing secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure across multiple environments.