[Remote] Platform Engineer, Public Sector

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exiger transforms supply chains through its 1Exiger AI platform, helping government agencies and enterprises manage supply chain, risk, and compliance. The Platform Engineer will build and operate reusable AWS and GovCloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and cloud cost governance for federal programs while supporting customer-facing cloud posture and ATO discussions.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the reference cloud substrate: account structure, networking, and identity perimeter patterns that default to FedRAMP-aligned from day one and replicate across programs
• Build and own the shared Terraform module library as a product: versioned, documented, consumed confidently by program engineers you don't sit next to
• Operate the Kubernetes platform patterns programs adopt: cluster design, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling, upgrade strategy
• Build the CI/CD paved road (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or AWS-native) with security gates built in, so program teams deploy self-service without reinventing the pipeline
• Build observability patterns that travel: the dashboards, alerting, and SLO scaffolding a new program inherits rather than assembles
• Own cloud cost across the portfolio: forecast it, govern it, and surface it to delivery leadership before it becomes a surprise
• Support program teams adopting the substrate, and harden the patterns based on what their deployments teach you
• Sit in customer-context conversations about cloud posture and ATO progress, representing the platform across programs
• Carry on-call for the shared platform surface you own

Skills

• 5+ years of production cloud engineering experience on AWS, with deep familiarity across IAM, VPC, EKS, S3, KMS, and CloudTrail
• Hands-on experience operating inside a FedRAMP boundary (Moderate or High), not just compliance-flavored commercial AWS
• Strong Terraform skills, including module authorship that other engineers depend on without you in the room
• Production Kubernetes / EKS experience: cluster upgrades, RBAC design, network policy, autoscaling
• CI/CD pipeline ownership at production scale, including security gates (image scanning, dependency scanning, IaC policy)
• Production observability ownership at meaningful scale
• Experience building for reuse: platforms, modules, or paved-road tooling consumed by teams beyond your own
• Familiarity with cloud cost management at scale (reserved instances, savings plans, chargeback / showback)
• Strong customer-facing posture: comfortable in customer-context conversations about cloud and ATO posture
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional certification
• Direct GovCloud (US) production experience, particularly across the commercial-to-GovCloud boundary
• Experience contributing platform-side evidence to a FedRAMP authorization end-to-end
• Experience with internal developer platform (IDP) patterns (Backstage, paved-road tooling, golden-path templates)
• Direct background in security engineering or DevSecOps (security-heavy reqs route through this role)
• Familiarity with chaos engineering or fault injection tooling (AWS FIS, Gremlin)
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent practical FinOps experience
• Experience operating in IL5, IL6, or JWICS environments
• Active U.S. Government security clearance preferred (Secret minimum for most engagements; TS or TS/SCI required for a subset)
• Candidates without an active clearance must be able to obtain one. Clearance level will be confirmed at offer

Benefits

• Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off.
• Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable.
• Wellness stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
• Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications.

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