Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bixal is a consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and observability foundation that engineering teams rely on daily.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Terraform templates supporting the engineering platform
- Implement and maintain observability on Datadog, including instrumentation, alerting, and service-level objectives
- Support environment automation, on-call rotations, and golden-path delivery
- Improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency across agency services
- Implement monitoring and alerting that support effective incident response and production operations
- Eliminate recurring operational work through automation, improving team velocity
- Deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity
- Participate in two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and architecture reviews with the Platform Enablement team
- Other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and at least eight (8) years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines, infrastructure automation, and shared platform services for high-availability systems
- Demonstrated ability to improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency
- Experience implementing monitoring and alerting that supports effective incident response and production operations
- Strong automation skills to eliminate recurring operational work and improve team velocity
- Able to independently deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity
- Solid understanding of Datadog, GitLab CI/CD, and FedRAMP-authorized toolchains
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust clearance
- Experience with Terraform-based golden-path/IaC module design in a federal or regulated environment
- Exposure to AI-assisted coding tools for boilerplate or IaC generation
- Prior federal or large-scale enterprise platform engineering experience
Benefits
- Flex hours
- 401K with matching incentive
- Parental Leave
- Medical/dental/vision benefits
- Flex Spending Account
- Company provided short-term disability and life insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 11 Paid holidays
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