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Rackner

Platform Engineer

Rackner

. Build and operate a secure, cloud-native platform powering data, analytics, and AI/ML for a federal health mission .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in building and operating secure, cloud-native platforms for federal health missions, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies. Capable of leading technical initiatives, mentoring teams, and ensuring compliance in regulated environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Kubernetes (EKS)Terraform Infrastructure-as-CodeGitOps (ArgoCD)AWS Services (EKS, S3, Glue)CI/CD with GitLab CI and Jenkins

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Hard Skills
KubernetesTerraformArgoCDKarpenterKEDAPrometheusGrafanaTrinoDagsterDbt
Soft Skills
Client-FacingMentoringProblem-SolvingTechnical Leadership
Tools & Technologies
AWS GovCloudGitLab CIJenkinsPythonBashGo
Certifications & Qualifications
U.S. CitizenshipPublic Trust
Industry Keywords
DevSecOpsSite ReliabilityCloud EngineeringNIST 800-53FISMAATO Processes

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudFluxGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and operate a secure, cloud-native platform powering data, analytics, and AI/ML for a federal health mission
  • Own and evolve the Terraform and ArgoCD IaC/GitOps foundation
  • Build and operate a multi-tenant, self-service platform with golden-path onboarding, tenant/environment management, application and tooling catalog, and internal developer tooling/CLI
  • Run Kubernetes on AWS GovCloud across development, pre-production, and production
  • Implement Karpenter and KEDA autoscaling, ingress, Gateway API, cert-manager, and ALB integration
  • Architect and deploy AIOps/MLOps capabilities for data science and data engineering teams
  • Enable GPU compute and scheduling, model training and serving, managed notebooks, GenAI/Bedrock workloads, and production ML pipelines
  • Build the data lakehouse using Trino/Iceberg on Glue and S3, Dagster, dbt, and search
  • Deliver observability and SLOs using Prometheus and Grafana, including custom dashboards and actionable alerting
  • Automate security and compliance through secrets management, network policy, IRSA least privilege, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, and ATO artifact generation
  • Author and maintain platform documentation, production-readiness standards, and runbooks
  • Partner directly with government stakeholders and platform tenants to translate mission needs into platform capabilities
  • Mentor teammates and grow into a technical leadership role

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering, with senior-level ownership of a production platform
  • Built an internal developer platform / PaaS from the ground up for federal clients and taken it to production through ATO in a federal program
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter/KEDA, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, Trino, Dagster, dbt, and AWS services including EKS, S3, Glue, IAM/IRSA, ECR, SageMaker, Bedrock, and Athena
  • Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux), and Terraform infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience designing self-service golden paths, multi-tenancy, and developer onboarding
  • Strong CI/CD background with GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and progressive delivery
  • Automation and scripting with Python, Bash, and Go
  • Working knowledge of NIST 800-53, FISMA, and ATO processes
  • Comfortable working in GovCloud and regulated environments
  • Documentation and runbook creation skills
  • U.S. citizenship required
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; active Public Trust is a plus
  • Client-facing, mentoring, problem-solving, and technical leadership capabilities

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Weekly pay
  • Fully remote work
  • Paid certifications and training for relevant technologies
  • 401k with 100% match up to 6%
  • PTO
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Gym/fitness membership
  • Home office setup
  • Swag
  • Snacks
  • Social events