Sr Platform Engineer Lead

Client Requirements: applicants MUST BE US Citizens and be able to obtain Public Trust clearance

About the Role

CTG is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer Lead to lead the design, automation, and reliability of the cloud platforms behind mission-critical federal systems. This role suits a senior engineer with deep DevOps and infrastructure expertise who wants to set technical direction, raise the bar on reliability, and grow the engineers around them.

You Will Get To

• Lead the architecture, build, and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms that support federal mission needs
• Own cloud Infrastructure-as-Code standards and implementation using Terraform or similar tools
• Design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery
• Define and track reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems for production issues, and drive lasting fixes
• Build automation that reduces manual work, improves system resilience, and speeds up delivery
• Design runbooks and procedures for troubleshooting, maintenance, and disaster recovery
• Evaluate new and emerging technologies through prototypes and proofs of concept, weighing benefits and risks before adoption
• Partner with development, architecture, security, and product teams to deliver integrated, production-ready solutions
• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and platform decisions
• Mentor and guide engineers while establishing platform engineering standards and best practices

Who You Are

• A senior technical leader who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and reliability problems at scale
• Someone who automates first and builds systems that are easy to operate and recover
• Comfortable leading technical conversations and influencing engineering direction
• Calm and methodical under pressure during production incidents
• Collaborative, proactive, and quick to get up to speed on new projects and technologies
• Passionate about building secure, high-quality systems in mission-driven environments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 9+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership
• Experience working with governance processes, technical standards, formal change management, or shared enterprise services
• Ability to identify dependencies and articulate resource needs, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions for the product leadership
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Proven experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or similar tools
• Experience designing and operating workloads in a cloud environment (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure considered)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatchcf
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or Go)
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Experience troubleshooting production systems, performance tuning, and leading root cause analysis
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices and secure infrastructure principles
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills

Nice to Have

• Experience producing clear product status updates, operational metrics, dashboards, and risk narratives
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to coordinate effectively across product, program, engineering, security, and operations organizations
• Experience coordinating shared resources or cross-team technical dependencies
• People management experience
• Experience with Harness.io
• Familiarity with Zero Trust principles and FedRAMP or ATO processes
• Experience with service mesh, GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux), or serverless platforms
• Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS DevOps Engineer
• Experience supporting federal government agencies

Salary

We are committed to offering a competitive salary for this position, with an estimated range of $140k–$200k annually. Please note that this range is intended to provide a general idea of what to expect. The final offer may vary based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Full Time Employee Benefits

• Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be specified in the job post)
• Competitive Compensation Package
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) with 4% matching
• Liberal PTO vacation policy
• Generous Annual Continuing Education
• Annual Wellness Budget
• Bonus Incentive Programs (Employee referrals and performance-based rewards)