[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support a federal health technology program. This role will focus on building and maintaining a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads, requiring strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, and CI/CD automation.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads
- Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and CI/CD pipeline standards
- Develop Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy
- Create Terraform module stacks for AWS services including ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch
- Build Terraform modules and root module compositions for multi-service applications
- Define YAML-based application contracts for application teams
- Implement promotion workflows, approval gates, drift prevention, and environment separation
- Establish Terraform state management and environment management practices
- Support ECS Fargate and other AWS platform services
- Standardize build, test, deploy, and release workflows
- Partner with developers, security, and operations teams to deliver secure and reusable platform patterns
- Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams
- Improve platform reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency
Skills
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust
- Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of experience in lieu of degree
- 7 or more years of platform development, DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience
- Strong AWS experience, especially with ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch
- Hands-on Terraform experience, including module design, root module composition, backend configuration, and state management
- Jenkins pipeline experience, including Declarative pipelines, Scripted pipelines, shared libraries, or multibranch pipelines
- Experience creating reusable platform tooling or abstractions for multiple application teams
- Scripting experience with Bash or Python
- Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, release governance, and environment promotion
- Experience designing or supporting internal developer platforms
- Experience with golden path or self-service deployment patterns
- Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services
- Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion
- Experience with multi-account AWS environments
- Familiarity with event-driven architecture and asynchronous patterns
- Experience onboarding application teams to shared platform tooling
- Experience supporting ServiceNow-based low-code applications
Benefits
- Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans
- Participation in a 401(k) plan
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