Platform and Reliability Engineer, Lead
Booz Allen Hamilton27 days ago
Base Salary
$99k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate secure, reliable cloud infrastructure, shared runtimes, model gateways, deployment pipelines, and observability services.
- Automate environments, security controls, deployment checks, and operational workflows using infrastructure-as-code and scripting.
- Monitor availability, latency, throughput, token consumption, and cost across production AI platforms.
- Lead shared-platform incident response, recovery, capacity planning, and disaster recovery activities.
- Implement centralized logs, metrics, distributed traces, and dashboards to diagnose failures and performance issues.
- Validate operational readiness, maintain deployment standards and runbooks, and coordinate technical handoffs across AI Engineering, Data Engineering, and Forward-Deployed Engineering.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including networking, identity, secrets management, and access controls.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containers, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and automated security and deployment checks.
- Experience applying site reliability engineering practices, including service objectives, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
- Experience implementing centralized logs, metrics, distributed traces, and dashboards.
- Knowledge of LLM operational requirements such as model gateways, rate limits, retries, timeouts, runtime isolation, and consumption costs.
- Ability to automate operational workflows with Python or Bash and troubleshoot distributed systems.
- Ability to document support responsibilities, evaluate readiness evidence, and coordinate technical handoffs.
- Bachelor's degree and U.S. citizenship are required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTelemetry, LangSmith, Langfuse, LLMOps, FinOps, automated recovery, performance testing, or secure enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with expected work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and access to employee benefits for eligible full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week regularly.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).