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Sr Platform Engineer Lead

Capital Technology Group
Remote, USA
Senior · 9+ years experience
Remote
Discovered 6 days ago
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The CTG Experience

At Capital Technology Group (CTG), our teams are passionate about modernizing how the federal government delivers software. We partner with federal agencies to build secure, scalable, and mission-driven solutions that make a meaningful impact on millions of people. Recognized by The Washington Post as a Top Workplace in 2025 and 2026. CTG fosters a culture rooted in our core values. Our values guide how we work together and support one another, creating an environment where employees feel trusted, empowered, and encouraged to grow both personally and professionally.

About the Role

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.

You Will Get To

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

Who You Are

  • 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
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatchcf
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or Go)
  • Working knowledge of databases and SQL
  • Experience troubleshooting production systems, performance tuning, and leading root cause analysis
  • Understanding of DevSecOps practices and secure infrastructure principles
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and operating workloads in a cloud environment ( AWS preferred; GCP or Azure considered)

Nice to Have

  • 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
  • Experience supporting federal government agencies
  • Experience designing and operating workloads in a cloud environment ( AWS preferred; GCP or Azure considered)
  • Salary
  • We are committed to offering a competitive salary for this position, with an estimated range of $140k–$200k annually. Please note that this range is intended to provide a general idea of what to expect. The final offer may vary based on experience, skills, and other factors.
  • Full Time Employee Benefits
  • Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be specified in the job post)
  • Competitive Compensation Package
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401(k) with 4% matching
  • Liberal PTO vacation policy
  • Generous Annual Continuing Education
  • Annual Wellness Budget
  • Bonus Incentive Programs (Employee referrals and performance-based rewards)
  • Thanks for your interest in Capital Technology Group!
  • Capital Technology Group is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Salary

We are committed to offering a competitive salary for this position, with an estimated range of $140k–$200k annually. Please note that this range is intended to provide a general idea of what to expect. The final offer may vary based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Full Time Employee Benefits

Remote Work (Hybrid roles will be specified in the job post)

Competitive Compensation Package

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability

Employee Assistance Program

401(k) with 4% matching

Liberal PTO vacation policy

Generous Annual Continuing Education

Annual Wellness Budget

Bonus Incentive Programs (Employee referrals and performance-based rewards)

Thanks for your interest in Capital Technology Group!

Capital Technology Group is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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