[Remote] Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Platform Engineer to support a mission-driven team focused on accelerating scientific discovery for a government customer. The role involves building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, particularly within AWS GovCloud environments, and implementing modern DevOps practices to enable rapid software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy secure AWS GovCloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnetting strategies, security groups, IAM roles, and network controls
• Build, optimize, and maintain Docker containers for Python Fast API backend services, improving portability and deployment consistency
• Implement ECS/Fargate-based container orchestration, enabling scalable, highly available services with auto-scaling policies
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudFormation to standardize and version cloud environments
• Engineer CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline to automate build, test, and deployment workflows
• Configure Application Load Balancers, SSL/TLS certificates, and Route 53 DNS, ensuring secure and reliable traffic routing
• Implement secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager, enhancing application security and credential lifecycle management
• Establish security controls aligned with government compliance requirements, including least privilege IAM and network isolation
• Design and implement observability solutions using AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, centralized logging, and proactive alerting
• Author deployment documentation and operational runbooks, improving team efficiency and incident response readiness
• Collaborate closely with backend developers to optimize containerized application performance, deployment processes, and scalability

Skills

• 5–8 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles
• Proven track record of building secure, scalable infrastructure for data-intensive and mission-critical applications
• Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud (or Azure Government) environments
• Strong understanding of FedRAMP Medium/High and DoD IL4/IL5 compliance requirements
• Deep familiarity with NIST SP 800-53 security controls and implementation practices
• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform/OpenTofu
• Ability to design and maintain reusable, modular Terraform codebases
• Experience bridging National Lab Supercomputers to cloud environments
• Modular Terraform providers for Databricks Workspace automation
• Transit gateway architectures for data egress/ingress optimization
• Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Python (for scripting and tooling)
• Databricks integration and deployment
• Fast API or similar Python web frameworks
• DNS resolution in hybrid environments
• Cost optimization (FinOps) for data-intensive workloads
• Monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus)

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k
• Holiday benefits

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