Senior Federal Platform Engineer
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Keeper SecurityCybersecurity
Remote, USFull-TimeSenior
SalaryAbove market annual bonuses
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonBashDevOpsTerraformAnsible
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Release Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical role
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating systems in IL5, IL6, FedRAMP High, classified, or similarly restricted government environments
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment workflows, and production change management
- Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar
- Experience with AWS GovCloud and/or Azure Government
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages
- Strong understanding of secure configuration, patching, logging, access control, and operational hardening practices
- Familiarity with federal security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and related operational controls
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for federal environments
- Support software releases, deployment execution, cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-release monitoring across IL5, IL6, and classified networks
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Maintain hardened infrastructure, configuration baselines, patching processes, and operational controls for restricted environments
- Troubleshoot complex deployment, infrastructure, application, and platform issues in coordination with Engineering and Security teams
- Build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational telemetry to improve system visibility and reliability
- Support incident response, recovery, postmortems, and corrective actions for federal platform environments
- Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, operational procedures, and configuration records for federal systems
- Support continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and authorization activities by producing required technical evidence and artifacts
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