Capitaltg The Sr Platform Engineer Lead leads the design, automation, and reliability of cloud platforms supporting federal systems. This role sets technical direction, raises reliability standards, and mentors engineers.
Responsibilities
CTG is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer Lead to lead the design, automation, and reliability of the cloud platforms behind mission-critical federal systems. This role suits a senior engineer with deep DevOps and infrastructure expertise who wants to set technical direction, raise the bar on reliability, and grow the engineers around them.
Lead the architecture, build, and evolution of secure, scalable cloud platforms that support federal mission needs
Own cloud Infrastructure-as-Code standards and implementation using Terraform or similar tools
Design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery
Define and track reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and observability
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems for production issues, and drive lasting fixes
Build automation that reduces manual work, improves system resilience, and speeds up delivery
Design runbooks and procedures for troubleshooting, maintenance, and disaster recovery
Evaluate new and emerging technologies through prototypes and proofs of concept, weighing benefits and risks before adoption
Partner with development, architecture, security, and product teams to deliver integrated, production-ready solutions
Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and platform decisions
Mentor and guide engineers while establishing platform engineering standards and best practices
Qualification
CollaborativePassionate about building secureBachelor’s degree in Computer SciencePeople management experienceExperience with HarnessExperience with service meshRelevant certifications such as CKA
Required
A senior technical leader who enjoys solving complex infrastructure and reliability problems at scale
Someone who automates first and builds systems that are easy to operate and recover
Comfortable leading technical conversations and influencing engineering direction
Calm and methodical under pressure during production incidents
Collaborative, proactive, and quick to get up to speed on new projects and technologies
Passionate about building secure, high-quality systems in mission-driven environments
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
9+ years of professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including technical leadership
Experience working with governance processes, technical standards, formal change management, or shared enterprise services
Ability to identify dependencies and articulate resource needs, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions for the product leadership
Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, Linux, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
Proven experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or similar tools
Preferred
Experience producing clear product status updates, operational metrics, dashboards, and risk narratives
Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to coordinate effectively across product, program, engineering, security, and operations organizations
Experience coordinating shared resources or cross-team technical dependencies
People management experience
Experience with Harness.io
Familiarity with Zero Trust principles and FedRAMP or ATO processes
Experience with service mesh, GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux), or serverless platforms
Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS Solutions Architect, or AWS DevOps Engineer
