Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the architecture and direction of Platform Services, focusing on technical strategy and influencing decisions across various platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical strategy for Platform Services work supporting FedRAMP High and IL5
- Own key architectural decisions for centralized platform APIs, CI components, continuous delivery workflows, automated service onboarding, and federal promotion gates
- Lead the move from manual federal promotion processes toward reliable, automated, gated delivery workflows
- Define patterns for service onboarding, deployment validation, operational readiness, audit-friendly change control, and rollback safety
- Partner with other teams to align dependencies, remove blockers, and drive clear technical decisions across the federal build-out
- Lead design reviews for services moving into federal environments, with attention to isolation, observability, security controls, and operational ownership
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the quality of designs, code reviews, runbooks, and incident analysis
- Represent Platform Services in program planning, execution commit work, risk reviews, and senior engineering discussions
- Communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and help the team reach durable decisions
Skills
- 8-12+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or cloud operations
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multi-team infrastructure or platform programs
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code and production automation
- Deep experience operating large-scale cloud or hybrid-cloud systems with strong reliability, security, and observability requirements
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment orchestration, Kubernetes, AWS, and production incident response
- Ability to translate compliance and security requirements into practical engineering systems and operating models
- Excellent written communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership skills
- Experience building or operating FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated environments
- Experience with platform APIs, progressive delivery, CI components, continuous delivery, artifact promotion, or deployment control planes
- Experience leading automation of previously manual operational workflows
Benefits
- Remote work
- Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference
- Candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview
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