Sr Platform Engineer Lead

Capital Technology Group

9d•$140,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

Capital Technology Group (CTG) is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer Lead to lead the design, automation, and reliability of cloud platforms supporting mission-critical federal systems. The role is for a senior engineer with deep DevOps and infrastructure expertise who will set technical direction, improve reliability, and develop other engineers. The position leads the architecture, development, and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms for federal missions. It owns Infrastructure-as-Code standards and implementation, CI/CD pipelines, reliability practices, incident response, automation, runbooks, and evaluation of emerging technologies. The role works closely with development, architecture, security, and product teams, leads technical discussions and architecture reviews, and establishes platform engineering standards and best practices. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain Public Trust clearance. The position is listed as full-time, with an estimated annual salary range of $140,000–$200,000. CTG describes its work as supporting federal agencies with secure, scalable, mission-driven software solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 9 years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership.
Experience with governance processes, technical standards, formal change management, or shared enterprise services.
Ability to identify dependencies and articulate resource needs, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to product leadership.
Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Proven experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or similar tools.
Experience designing and operating workloads in a cloud environment.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or Go.
Working knowledge of databases and SQL.
Experience troubleshooting production systems, tuning performance, and leading root cause analysis.
Understanding of DevSecOps practices and secure infrastructure principles.
Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience producing product status updates, operational metrics, dashboards, and risk narratives.
Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to coordinate across product, program, engineering, security, and operations organizations.
Experience coordinating shared resources or cross-team technical dependencies.
People management experience.
Experience with Harness.io.
Familiarity with Zero Trust principles and FedRAMP or ATO processes.
Experience with service mesh, GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, or serverless platforms.
Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS DevOps Engineer.
Experience supporting federal government agencies.
AWS experience is preferred; GCP or Azure experience is also considered.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, build, and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms supporting federal mission needs.
Own cloud Infrastructure-as-Code standards and implementation using Terraform or similar tools.
Design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery.
Define and track reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and observability.
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems for production issues, and drive lasting fixes.
Build automation that reduces manual work, improves system resilience, and speeds delivery.
Design runbooks and procedures for troubleshooting, maintenance, and disaster recovery.
Evaluate emerging technologies through prototypes and proofs of concept, weighing benefits and risks before adoption.
Partner with development, architecture, security, and product teams to deliver integrated, production-ready solutions.
Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and platform decisions.
Mentor and guide engineers while establishing platform engineering standards and best practices.

Benefits

Remote work.
Competitive compensation package.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Life insurance and short- and long-term disability.
Employee Assistance Program.
401(k) with 4% matching.
Liberal PTO vacation policy.
Generous annual continuing education.
Annual wellness budget.
Bonus incentive programs, including employee referrals and performance-based rewards.