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Lead Platform Engineer
Exi*** · Richmond, VA, United States
Richmond, VA, United StatesExp: 10+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive compensation package; industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits; 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave; wellness stipends; reimbursement for educational certifications
Location
Richmond, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
Leads cross-team platform engineering programs that provide secure, reliable infrastructure across commercial AWS and FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud environments. The role owns architecture decisions, enterprise infrastructure-as-code and multi-region CI/CD, resilience and disaster recovery, incident response, and platform standards, while partnering with product and AI/ML teams and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time offIndustry leading health, vision, and dental benefits16 weeks of fully paid parental leaveWellness stipends and dedicated wellness programmingReimbursement provided for educational certifications
Qualifications
- A track record as the technical lead on large, cross-team infrastructure or platform programs with many stakeholders.
- Advanced, production-proven depth in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, and CI/CD, including architecture decisions that other teams had to live with.
- Experience translating FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2 requirements into automated, enforceable controls with continuous evidence.
- Strong Python or Go skills for platform tooling and automation.
- Typically 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as a technical lead on cross-team programs.
- U.S. citizenship, required for access to Exi***'s FedRAMP federal environments where legally required.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, cross-team platform programs such as multi-region EKS, GovCloud platform expansion, or a re-architecture of the IaC framework, from design through delivery.
- Make and own architecture decisions across compute, network topology, identity, account structure, and delivery, and document the tradeoffs clearly.
- Design enterprise IaC frameworks and multi-region CI/CD with approval gates, automated rollback, and policy enforcement.
- Design DR, capacity, and resilience strategies with explicit RTO/RPO targets, and validate them under sustained load, failure injection, and chaos testing.
- Own on-call escalation paths, lead the hardest incidents, and drive improvements to incident response across the teams the platform serves.
- Mentor and coach engineers across teams, delegate meaningful work, and help raise the hiring bar for platform roles.
Skills
AWSBackstageEKSGoIstioKubernetesLinkerdMakePythonTerraformVaultArgo CDDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CIGrafanaHelmIAMJenkinsKafkaPrometheus
Certifications
AWS Professional or Specialty certificationsCKA/CKSHashiCorp Terraform certification
Languages
PythonGo
Industry
Supply chainProcurement automation
Relocation
No