Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bixal is a consulting company that partners with governments and organizations to deliver better services and experiences. The Staff Platform Engineer will serve as the senior-most technical authority for a government agency’s internal developer platform, owning its architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards. The role focuses on secure infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, observability, self-service capabilities, and platform adoption across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own target-state platform architecture, golden paths, and engineering standards across the platform engineering effort
- Serve as the senior-most technical authority on the platform build, providing technical direction to the Platform Enablement team
- Design and evolve internal platform capabilities that improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across engineering teams
- Establish infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, and secure provisioning patterns for mission-critical, FedRAMP-authorized systems
- Standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications
- Reduce operational toil by building self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns (golden-path templates, IaC modules)
- Act as a hands-on platform leader, setting standards, driving adoption, and preventing fragmentation across teams
- Partner with the client’s Product Owner and Staff Technical Product Manager on platform roadmap and prioritization
- Participate in two-week Agile sprints, architecture reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- 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
- * Demonstrated experience designing and evolving internal platforms that improve delivery speed, deployment safety, and reliability across teams
- * Deep expertise in infrastructure automation, delivery pipelines, environment design, and secure provisioning for mission-critical systems
- * Proven ability to standardize observability, environment consistency, and release controls across multiple applications
- * Experience reducing operational toil by building self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns
- * Demonstrated hands-on platform leadership: setting standards, driving adoption, and preventing fragmentation across teams
- * Solid experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Datadog, and Terraform-based golden-path/IaC patterns
- * This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Tier 4 / High Risk Public Trust determination in support of a federal government contract
- This is a fully remote position that can be worked anywhere in the U.S
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US
- Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship
- * Prior experience on federal digital services or similar large-scale, multi-team modernization contracts
- * Experience applying AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitLab AI features, AWS Bedrock) within FedRAMP-authorized boundaries
- * Experience with federal financial or benefits systems
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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