FDA - Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer Location : Remote (U.S.) Clearance : U.S. Citizenship required; must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust (active Public Trust a plus) Employment Type : Full-time Make an Impact on Federal Health : Join Rackner to build and operate the secure, cloud-native platform that powers data, analytics, and AI/ML for a federal health mission. You won't just run infrastructure — you'll own the internal developer platform that data scientists, data engineers, and application teams build on every day. Shape where it goes next: production-grade MLOps, self-service onboarding, and a paved road from commit to GovCloud. Who You Are : 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering, with senior-level ownership of a production platform Built an internal developer platform / PaaS from the ground up for federal clients — and taken it to production (through ATO) in a federal program, not just contributed to one Extensive hands-on experience across both the open-source cloud-native/data ecosystem (Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter/KEDA, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, Trino, Dagster, dbt) and the AWS services that back them (EKS, S3, Glue, IAM/IRSA, ECR, SageMaker, Bedrock, Athena) Deep expertise with Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps (ArgoCD or Flux), and Terraform infrastructure-as-code Designs for self-service: golden paths, multi-tenancy, and onboarding that lets teams ship safely without a platform engineer in the loop Strong CI/CD b