Job Role : Senior/Lead SRE Platform Services Engineer Technical Leader
Experience : 12 - 15 years of experience
Location : San Jose, CA (Remote)
Job Type : Full time Permanent
Note : the person(s) hired must possess the ability to obtain US Security Clearance which requires
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
• 8-12+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or cloud operations.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multi-team infrastructure or platform programs.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code and production automation.
• Deep experience operating large-scale cloud or hybrid-cloud systems with strong reliability, security, and observability requirements.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment orchestration, Kubernetes, AWS, and production incident response.
• Ability to translate compliance and security requirements into practical engineering systems and operating models.
• Excellent written communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Set the technical strategy for Platform Services work supporting FedRAMP High and IL5.
• Own key architectural decisions for centralized platform APIs, CI components, continuous delivery workflows, automated service onboarding, and federal promotion gates.
• Lead the move from manual federal promotion processes toward reliable, automated, gated delivery workflows.
• Define patterns for service onboarding, deployment validation, operational readiness, audit-friendly change control, and rollback safety.
• Partner with other teams to align dependencies, remove blockers, and drive clear technical decisions across the federal build-out.
• Lead design reviews for services moving into federal environments, with attention to isolation, observability, security controls, and operational ownership.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the quality of designs, code reviews, runbooks, and incident analysis.
• Represent Platform Services in program planning, execution commit work, risk reviews, and senior engineering discussions.
• Communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and help the team reach durable decisions.
Nice to have skills:
• Experience building or operating FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated environments.
• Experience with platform APIs, progressive delivery, CI components, continuous delivery, artifact promotion, or deployment control planes.
• Experience leading automation of previously manual operational workflows.