Principal Platform Engineer - United States, Remote

Summary/Overview

We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to help lead the deployment and operation of our NodeZero platform. Working closely with our platform architect, your goal will be to help bridge the gap between the our commercial platform and the new federal platform running in AWS GovCloud. Your expertise in AWS, AWS GovCloud, kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and tools like Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI will be essential in creating scalable and secure systems that enable innovative experimentation. Join us in shaping the future of our platform, driving growth and empowering developers with a flexible and efficient environment.

Essential Functions

• Implement  highly scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native application platforms that host core company applications, toolings, and other services vital to enabling our product to perform in AWS GovCloud.
• Work with the core platform team to modify current "golden paths to production," to account for the changes in Federal compliance frameworks like FedRAMP, DoD Cloud Computing Security Reference Guide (CC SRG).
• Be the advocate for change in development and deployment processes that align with federal compliance to ensure the engineering organization can maintain high velocity.
• Identify gaps within the current processes and orchestrate the needed change for developers.
• Design and implement tooling for the internal platform to collect telemetry data used to gauge its effectiveness in supporting H3's engineers. This includes both technical metrics and user interviews documented in a centrally available service.
• Help create an effective documentation culture within the Systems Engineering team (Confluence, Gitlab pages).
• Participate in effective project management and work allocation (Jira, Agile Concepts).
• Help development teams convert manually built projects into automated infrastructure as code projects that meet best-in-class programming standards.
• Develop, Test, and Publish core …