Senior Platform Operations Engineer — Secret Clearance | Remote

Elevate Government Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Unlimited Vacation

Training

Mentoring/Coaching

Job summary

Elevate Government Solutions seeks a Senior Platform Operations Engineer to support a federal client. This remote/hybrid role requires an ACTIVE SECRET clearance. You will ensure production infrastructure is secure, reliable, and scalable, overseeing Linux environments and cloud services.

The ideal candidate has Python experience and hands-on work with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD workflows. You will monitor systems, respond to incidents, and collaborate with engineering and client

Qualifications

• Proactive problem-solving mindset with ability to diagnose and resolve complex ops issues.
• Experience with Python in operational/support environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD pipeline ops.
• Strong Git version-control skills.
• Comfortable with Linux CLI and performing operational tasks.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Experience monitoring and supporting production infrastructure in a collaborative environment.
• Strong incident response and communication skills.
• Ability to work East Coast hours.
• Ability to work hybrid in Vienna, VA or remotely.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot production environments to maximize uptime.
• Operate infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automate workflows with Git tooling.
• Ensure reliability for AWS services (EKS, S3, EMR).
• Support Spark, JupyterHub, and Hue in operations.
• Diagnose root causes and drive issue resolution.
• Implement and monitor infrastructure and app alerting.
• Optimize data flows and storage integrations.
• Coordinate with engineering and clients for deployments.
• Improve platform operational processes and docs.

Skills

Python for ops

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Linux CLI

Incident response

Monitoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Eng or related

Tools

AWS (EKS, S3, EMR)

Databricks

EMR

Spark

JupyterHub

Hue

Job description

Elevate Government Solutions seeks a Senior Platform Operations Engineer to support a federal client. This remote/hybrid role requires an ACTIVE SECRET clearance. You will ensure production infrastructure is secure, reliable, and scalable, overseeing Linux environments and cloud services.

The ideal candidate has Python experience and hands-on work with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD workflows. You will monitor systems, respond to incidents, and collaborate with engineering and client