Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud Platform): Designing and evolving shared cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation for federal student aid systems with an accent on secure provisioning, observability, and developer experience. Focus on building self-service capabilities, standardizing engineering practices, and solving complex reliability, scalability, and DevSecOps challenges across multiple teams.

Location: Fully remote, available only to candidates residing in hirify.global-authorized U.S. states, including Maryland. Occasional travel to client sites or company meetings may be required. Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance is required.

Salary: $120,588–$195,955 annually; hiring range: $120,588–$145,000, plus discretionary performance-based bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a digital integration consultancy combining technology, people, and organizational development to deliver software and modernization solutions.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of an enterprise platform supporting software delivery across a federal customer ecosystem.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure, shared platform services, reusable engineering capabilities, and self-service tools.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, deployment automation, and secure provisioning across multiple teams.
• Establish platform engineering standards, architecture patterns, observability practices, and DevSecOps workflows.
• Implement logging, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and operational metrics using Datadog.
• Mentor engineers, partner with software, product, and security teams, and drive platform adoption and reliability.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or related technical roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Extensive experience with cloud-native platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, and platform automation.
• Experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and logging using Datadog, plus integration of GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and Databricks.
• Advanced ability to lead platform engineering, standardize environments and releases, reduce operational toil, and mentor technical teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale enterprise modernization or platform engineering in federal government environments.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, driving adoption, and preventing platform fragmentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible, family-friendly schedules for eligible U.S. residents.
• Medical HSA plan, dental and vision coverage, HSA contributions, and competitive HMO/PPO options.
• 401(k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
• Paid parental leave, paid FMLA, generous PTO, federal holidays, sick leave, jury duty, and bereavement leave.
• Education, wellness, technology, pet insurance, legal support, life insurance, disability coverage, and performance-based bonuses.
• Coaching-oriented culture with autonomy, professional growth, equity, curiosity, and collaboration.

Hiring process

• Introductory recruiter interview covering experience, skills, compensation expectations, and role details.
• Role-specific technical assessment.
• Skills and business fit interview, with possible customer interviews, background checks, and security clearance steps.