Sr Platform Engineer Lead
Capital Technology Group1 day ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, construction, and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms for federal mission systems.
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code standards and implementation using Terraform or similar tools.
- Design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for safe and repeatable software delivery.
- Define and track reliability practices including SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and observability.
- Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and lasting remediation efforts.
- Build automation, runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, maintenance processes, and disaster recovery practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies through prototypes and proofs of concept before adoption.
- Partner with development, architecture, security, and product teams to deliver production-ready solutions.
- Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, platform decisions, and engineering standards.
- Mentor and guide engineers while establishing platform engineering best practices.
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.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or similar tools.
- Experience designing and operating cloud workloads, preferably in AWS, with GCP or Azure also considered.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go scripting and automation.
- 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, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership skills.
- Applicants must be US citizens and able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include Harness.io, Zero Trust, FedRAMP or ATO, service mesh, GitOps, serverless, relevant certifications, federal agency support, people management, and cross-team resource coordination experience.
Benefits
- Remote work is available; hybrid roles will be specified in the job post.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- 401(k) with 4% matching.
- Liberal PTO vacation policy.
- Annual continuing education and wellness budget.
- Bonus incentive programs for employee referrals and performance-based rewards.
- Full-time employee position.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Capital Technology Group
Capital Technology Group provides managed IT services and office technology solutions for businesses, including network and server management, help desk support, and managed print services. The company also sells and services printers and copiers, combining hardware with ongoing maintenance and support. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, it operates as a privately held regional provider.