Sr Platform Engineer Lead

capitaltg; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

401(k) matching

Wellness budget

Job summary

capitaltg seeks a senior engineer to lead secure, dependable cloud platforms for critical public-sector systems. You will set platform direction, improve deployment and operational practices, oversee incident response, and mentor engineers across partner teams.

You will design scalable cloud platforms with IaC, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliability through SLOs, monitoring, and runbooks. Strong leadership and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Minimum nine years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure with leadership.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, CI/CD tools, and Terraform or similar.
• Experience operating cloud workloads (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure relevant).
• Strong communication and technical leadership, governance, or enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable cloud platforms with IaC standards.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation for reliable delivery.
• Define reliability practices: SLOs, monitoring, alerting, observability.
• Lead production incident response, RCAs, and postmortems.
• Create runbooks and disaster recovery procedures; prototype new tech.
• Coordinate architecture decisions with teams and mentor engineers.

Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Linux

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Bash

Python

Go

SQL

Observability tooling

Communication

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Harness

Argo CD

Flux

Terraform

Job description

Role overview

Lead the engineering of secure, dependable cloud platforms that support critical public-sector systems. This senior technical role sets platform direction, improves deployment and operational practices, leads incident response, and mentors engineers across partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable cloud platforms, including infrastructure-as-code standards and implementations.


• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation for reliable, repeatable software delivery.


• Define and track reliability practices such as service objectives, monitoring, alerting, and observability.


• Lead production incident response, root-cause investigations, postmortems, and lasting corrective work.


• Create operational runbooks and disaster recovery procedures; assess new technologies through prototypes.


• Coordinate architecture decisions with development, security, product, and operations teams, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.


• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.


• At least nine years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership.


• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, CI/CD tools, and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.


• Experience operating cloud workloads; AWS is preferred, while GCP or Azure experience is relevant.


• Familiarity with observability tooling, scripting in Bash, Python, or Go, SQL, production troubleshooting, and secure infrastructure practices.


• Strong communication and technical leadership, including experience with governance, change management, or enterprise standards.

Nice to have

• Federal agency experience, FedRAMP or ATO familiarity, or knowledge of Zero Trust principles.


• People management, stakeholder coordination, or cross-team dependency management experience.


• Experience with Harness, service mesh, GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, or serverless platforms.


• Certifications such as CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS DevOps Engineer.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote work; hybrid arrangements are specified separately.


• Listed annual salary range of $140,000–$200,000, depending on experience and other factors.


• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; employee assistance program; and a 401(k) with 4% matching.


• Paid time off, continuing education support, wellness budget, and bonus incentives.