Senior Platform Engineer

Leader in their industry, our exciting global SaaS construction platform client seeks a contract Senior Platform Engineer. This is a remote contract position.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our client’s Runtime Platform Group. In this role, you will build our FedRAMP-authorized environment for U.S. Federal Government projects.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll be on a team building a secure, compliant SaaS platform for Federal government-led construction projects. This will involve building cloud infrastructure and deploying cloud-native applications and services in a dedicated environment that meets all controls for, and is authorized for use at, the FedRAMP Moderate level. The impact of this team is wide as it touches all aspects of our client’s growth, and our work is a strategic priority for the company in 2024 and 2025. Come be a part of a great team and company!

This position reports to the Runtime Platform Software Architect and will be based remotely within the Continental United States. We’re looking for someone to join us immediately.

Contract Duration: 6-Months

Required Skills & Experience

• This position requires the ability to access federal environments and/or have access to protected federal data. As a condition of employment for this position, the successful candidate must be able to submit documentation establishing U.S. Person status (e.g. a U.S. Citizen, National, Lawful Permanent Resident, Refugee, or Asylee. 22 CFR 120.15) located in continental US.
• 6+ years platform development experience, at least some of which are in a moderate-to-large-scale environment (>1000 hosts, petabytes of data).
• Extensive experience with AWS cloud services, including IAM, EC2, EKS, VPC internetworking, RDS, and ElastiCache.
• Proficient with Terraform.
• Proficient with Kubernetes and Helm. Proficiency with ArgoCD is a plus.
• Confident in one or more common platform software development languages such as Python, Golang, or Ruby.
• Familiarity with cloud observability, logging, and telemetry
• Experience working in an Agile Environment.

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to define, build, and document the cloud compute, storage, and network resources needed to run our SaaS platform in an AWS Govcloud region.
• Continually ensure our processes and results comply with the FedRAMP Moderate level of controls.
• Deploy and configure business-critical platform services for networking, secrets, observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Build and support CI/CD systems for rapidly deploying cloud infrastructure in a highly secure environment.
• Engineer resilient systems that support 24x365 uptime at a 99.95% availability level.
• Build and test disaster recovery mechanisms for systems and data.
• Support internal customers by facilitating accurate and favorable transactions, and on-going supplier management and accountability
• Collaborate to build best spend management practices and technology trends
• Effectively communicate the impact of sourcing decisions to Business Partners and leadership as appropriate and proactively enlist their support.
• Communicate with Business Partners, coworkers and management in a clear, concise and timely manner.
• Maintain a high level of ‘Customer Focus’ attitude.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.