SRE Platform Engineer (Remote)

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GovStar seeks an SRE Platform Engineer to automate, operate, monitor, and continuously improve the secure platform supporting enterprise AI and advanced analytics capabilities. This role is a hands-on engineering position focused on platform reliability, DevOps, incident response, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and secure operations in Azure environments supporting sensitive government data and AI workloads.
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be U.S. citizens residing in the United States within the Eastern or Central Time Zone.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Design, automate, operate, and sustain reliable platform services supporting AI applications and centralized data capabilities.
Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), primarily using Terraform, for repeatable and controlled Azure environment deployment.
Establish and improve observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and actionable operational telemetry.
Develop and maintain incident response procedures, runbooks, service health checks, and reliability practices, including SLIs/SLOs where appropriate.
Support containerized platform deployments and orchestration patterns as directed by the customer and architecture.
Implement DevSecOps practices using GitHub Enterprise, automated pipelines, code review, configuration management, and controlled release processes.
Monitor production and pilot environments; troubleshoot performance, availability, deployment, networking, identity, and integration issues.
Support platform security, compliance, vulnerability remediation, auditability, and Authority-to-Operate (ATO) activities.
Partner with AI, application, data, cloud, and security engineers to improve platform resilience, deployment speed, and operational consistency.
Document platform architecture, operational procedures, known failure modes, recovery steps, and technical decisions.
Minimum Requirements
U.S. citizenship.
Current residence in the United States and residence in either the Eastern or Central Time Zone.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
At least 6 years of relevant professional experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, or a closely related discipline.
Strong hands-on experience operating production cloud environments, with Azure experience strongly preferred.
Production experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform.
Experience implementing CI/CD, source control, automated deployment, and secure software delivery practices.
Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production troubleshooting.
Experience with containers and modern cloud-native deployment practices.
Strong scripting or programming ability in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or a comparable language.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate risks, blockers, and technical decisions proactively.
GovStar Expectations
Passion for solving complex technical challenges in support of U.S. national security objectives.
Willingness to learn, grow, and stretch outside established areas of expertise.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and teammates.
Proactive communication, self-direction, ownership, and the ability to start and lead initiatives without waiting to be told what to do.
Commitment to GovStar’s collective growth through knowledge sharing and participation in internal initiatives, innovation efforts, onboarding, and business-development support.
Professionalism, humility, curiosity, customer empathy, and a collaborative, team-first mindset.
Preferred Requirements
Experience supporting AI/LLM platforms or data-intensive applications.
Experience with Azure networking, identity, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, private connectivity, and security controls.
Experience supporting Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms.
Experience supporting U.S. federal government environments, ATO activities, FedRAMP/FISMA-aligned controls, or other regulated systems.
Experience with GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions.
Experience with Databricks, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or related AI platform services.
Relevant Technologies
Azure; Terraform; GitHub Enterprise/GitHub Actions; Docker; Kubernetes; Python/PowerShell/Bash; Azure Monitor and related observability tooling; Databricks; Azure AI Foundry; Azure OpenAI.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation will vary based on experience and qualifications. We’re happy to discuss compensation expectations early in the process so neither side wastes time.
GovStar benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) matching; paid time off; and an employee shares program.

Work arrangement
Yes