Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AnaVation is hiring a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence for legal investigations. The role focuses on Azure and AKS operations, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and platform reliability.
Responsibilities
- Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting
- Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt
- Implement GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub workflows
- Deploy and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Helm, Kustomize
- Manage Azure networking, identity, and security (VNets, Private Link, RBAC, Key Vault)
- Run Azure data services: PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Redis, AI Search, Storage, ACR
- Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, KQL dashboards, incident response, performance tuning
Skills
- US Citizenship with a Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secret clearance and experience supporting the Federal Government is REQUIRED
- Bachelors Degree in a relevant field
- Five (5) years of hands-on experience cloud platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
- Experience supporting large, distributed systems within the Federal Government
- Minimum Public Trust; US Citizenship and ability to maintain a High Risk Public Trust designation is required
- Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes operations. (AWS experience may be considered in lieu of Azure.)
- Deep hands-on experience with containerization technologies: Docker, Helm, Kustomize
- Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and modular IaC
- Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD and GitHub workflows
- Strong experience in platform observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL)
- Self-motivation and self-sufficiency requiring minimal guidance to achieve technical objectives
- Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with diverse technical teams
- Continuous alignment with and adherence to AnaVation's core values
- Experience with Azure Government and/or AWS GovCloud/C2S/SC2S
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
- Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Administrator, and/or Developer)
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
- IaC/DevOps certifications (Hashicorp/Terraform)
- AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Developer, and/or SysOps Administrator)
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Fully remote work from anywhere within the continental United States
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