[Remote] Platform Engineer, Public Sector

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Exiger is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate reusable cloud infrastructure for its U.S. federal programs. The role owns AWS and GovCloud patterns, Kubernetes, Terraform modules, CI/CD, observability, cloud costs, and customer-facing support for cloud posture and ATO progress.

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)

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.
• Stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
• Career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications.

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