Federal Platform Engineer

• We are looking for a Federal Platform Engineer to help lead the deployment and operation of our product infrastructure in multiple federal environments ranging from FedRAMP through Classified workloads
• Your goal will be to help build, maintain and improve our platform running in AWS. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure, kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and tools like Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI will be essential in creating scalable and secure systems that enable innovative experimentation
• Join us in shaping the future of our platform, driving growth and empowering developers with a flexible and efficient environment
• Implement highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native application platforms that host core company applications, toolings, and other services vital to enabling our product to perform in all AWS regions where we are deployed
• Identify, design, and deploy improvements in development and deployment processes so engineers can begin deploying anytime with confidence
• Design and implement tooling for the internal platform to collect telemetry data used to gauge its effectiveness in supporting H3’s engineers
• Help create an effective documentation culture within the Engineering Organization (Confluence, Documentation as code)
• Participate in effective project management and work allocation (Jira, Agile Concepts)
• Create Terraform modules and Crossplane compositions that are easily consumed by all of engineering
• Be a positive example of automation for infrastructure-as-code, platform operations, and overall CI/CD methodologies
• Evaluate new technologies and patterns for automation, application hosting, and improving infrastructure provisioning. Recommend and define the work needed
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Benefits

• Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career advancement opportunities
• Innovation-Driven Culture: Work in a collaborative environment that encourages creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
• Inclusive and Diverse Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy the convenience and work-life balance that comes with remote work

• Strong technical documentation and communication
• Excellent analytical/problem solving ability
• Creative, self-motivated, pragmatic, disciplined, detail and results oriented
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform engineering, or related roles
• Ability to manage concurrent initiatives and use effective judgment in prioritization and time management
• Strong understanding and experience with solution design and flow
• Programming Languages (GoLang required, Python a plus)
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Argo Events, Argo Workflows, Argo CD
• SSO (OIDC, SAML, Okta, Social Sign-ins)
• Kubernetes (RKE2, K3S, EKS)
• Experience using Claude Code or other AI-enabled development tooling
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Crossplane)
• Logging and Metrics (Datadog, OpenSearch)
• Shell Scripting
• Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secret Manager, External Secrets Operator)
• Configuration Management (Ansible)
• Container Engines (Docker)
• Storage (S3, EBS)
• Education:
• Event-Driven Architecture (SQS, EventBus)
• Database (AuroraRDS - Postgres)
• User Management (Cognito, Organizations, SSO)
• Security (IAM Roles and Policies, KMS, Cloudtrail)
• Bachelors in Computer Science or STEM or equivalent experience
• Cloud Technologies:
• Networking (VPC, VPCe, RT53)
• Compute (EC2, Lambda, EKS)
• MS in Computer Science a plus
• AWS Core Services
• US Citizen Required
• Possess or ability to gain and maintain Top Secret security clearance required
• Experience in FedRAMP, CC SRG, NIST 800-53, or Authority to Operate (ATO) process