Sr. Platform Engineer

Summit Federal Services, LLC • Fairfax, VA

2d • $140,000 - $155,000 • Remote

About The Position

Immediate need for a Sr. Platform Engineer for a London based company specializing in AI. This is a remote role. MUST live in the East Coast, preferably in Washington/DC Metro area, MD, and VA.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure for production systems.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g Terraform, CloudFormation) with extensive hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery of code across multiple environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Argo, including experience with scaling and securing containerized workloads.
• Experience with high-availability systems, disaster recovery strategies, and building infrastructure that meets rigorous uptime and performance requirements.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with software engineers, product teams, and leadership to align infrastructure goals with business objectives.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and CMMC, including implementing and maintaining infrastructure controls to meet certification requirements.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of scalable, high-performance infrastructure to support mission-critical applications, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency across all systems.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating code deployment processes to streamline delivery while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers. machine learning engineers and product managers, to translate system requirements into scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions.
• Lead by example through mentoring and advocating for DevOps best practices, ensuring infrastructure is maintainable, reusable, and secure.
• Optimize system performance through advanced monitoring, logging, and observability techniques, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues.
• Stay at the forefront of DevOps tools and methodologies, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to continuously improve the infrastructure stack.
• Write and maintain clean, scalable, and testable infrastructure code that adheres to modern DevOps standards, ensuring a robust and secure production environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed