Senior Federal Platform Engineer
Keeper SecurityResponsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for federal environments.
- Support releases, deployment execution, cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-release monitoring across IL5, IL6, and classified networks.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Maintain hardened infrastructure, configuration baselines, patching processes, and operational controls.
- Troubleshoot deployment, infrastructure, application, and platform issues with Engineering and Security teams.
- Build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational telemetry.
- Support incident response, recovery, postmortems, and corrective actions.
- Partner with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to improve deployment readiness and release quality.
- Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, operational procedures, and configuration records.
- Support continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and authorization activities by producing technical evidence and artifacts.
- Assist with vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance drift detection, and system configuration validation.
- Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot to improve automation, troubleshooting, documentation, scripting, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, release engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical role.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating systems in IL5, IL6, FedRAMP High, classified, or similarly restricted government environments.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, release automation, deployment workflows, and production change management.
- Strong experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud and/or Azure Government.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.
- Understanding of secure configuration, patching, logging, access control, and operational hardening practices.
- Experience with observability, production troubleshooting, and diagnosing issues across infrastructure, applications, networking, and deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, and related operational controls.
- Experience working under strict change control, limited access, and formal release processes.
- Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools for scripting, automation, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational analysis.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- All applicants must be a U.S. Person.
- Preferred qualifications include IL6 or classified deployment experience, Kubernetes or containerized workload operations, DISA STIGs, CIS benchmarks, secrets management, PAM, IAM, zero-trust architectures, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, audit evidence collection, and direct government or mission-partner experience.
Benefits
- 100% remote position with travel as needed
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including domestic partnerships
- Employer-paid life insurance and supplemental life insurance options
- Voluntary short- and long-term disability insurance
- Roth and traditional 401(k) plans
- Generous PTO, including paid bereavement and jury duty leave
- Above-market annual bonuses
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About Keeper Security
Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for millions of individuals and thousands of organizations globally. Built to protect against today’s threats and tomorrow’s challenges, our unified, cloud-native cybersecurity platform is trusted by Fortune 100 companies to protect every user, on every device, in every location. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Our core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper continues to lead in cybersecurity innovation, securing passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. As threats evolve and environments scale, Keeper is redefining modern cybersecurity to deliver the visibility, control and intelligence organizations need to operate confidently and securely. Our security and compliance standards include: - The longest-standing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications in the industry - FedRAMP and GovRAMP Authorization - FIPS 140-3 validation - SOC 3, PCI DSS and ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 certification Learn more at keepersecurity.com.