Sr. Platform Engineer

Sr. Platform Engineer (remote) - $140k-$155k Immediate need for a Sr. Platform Engineer for a London based company specializing in AI. This is a remote role. MUST live in the East Coast, preferably in Washington/DC Metro area, MD, and VA. Responsibilities:Drive the development of scalable, high-performance infrastructure to support mission-critical applications, ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency across all systems. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automating code deployment processes to streamline delivery while maintaining high-quality standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers. machine learning engineers and product managers, to translate system requirements into scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions. Lead by example through mentoring and advocating for DevOps best practices, ensuring infrastructure is maintainable, reusable, and secure. Optimize system performance through advanced monitoring, logging, and observability techniques, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues. Stay at the forefront of DevOps tools and methodologies, evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to continuously improve the infrastructure stack. Write and maintain clean, scalable, and testable infrastructure code that adheres to modern DevOps standards, ensuring a robust and secure production environment. Must-have requirements:5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure for production systems. Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g Terraform, CloudFormation) with extensive hands-on experience designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure. Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment workflows, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery of code across multiple environments. Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) Deep understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Argo, including experience with scaling and securing containerized workloads. Experience with high-availability systems, disaster recovery strategies, and building infrastructure that meets rigorous uptime and performance requirements. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with software engineers, product teams, and leadership to align infrastructure goals with business objectives. Nice-to-have requirements:Experience with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP and CMMC, including implementing and maintaining infrastructure controls to meet certification requirements. Summit Federal Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, on-the-job injury, sexual orientation, political affiliation or belief. Employment decisions are made without consideration of these or any other factors that employers are prohibited by law from considering. Any discriminatory action can be a cause for disciplinary action. Summit Federal Services, LLC also prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and will reasonably accommodate applicants with a disability, upon request, and will also ensure reasonable accommodation for employees with a disability.