Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – REMOTE

Job Description

Be Challenged and Make a Difference

In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is seeking a REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep experience in Azure, AKS, IaC, and SRE practices. You will build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence for legal investigations. Our environment is highly containerized, fully automated, and built around Azure services, AKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, and GitOps workflows.

US Citizenship with a Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secret clearance and experience supporting the Federal Government is REQUIRED.

What you will be doing

• Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting.
• Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Implement GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub workflows.
• Deploy and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Manage Azure networking, identity, and security (VNets, Private Link, RBAC, Key Vault).
• Run Azure data services: PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Redis, AI Search, Storage, ACR.
• Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, KQL dashboards, incident response, performance tuning.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Qualifications (Education/Certications, Experience, etc):
• Bachelors Degree in a relevant field
• Five (5) years of hands-on experience cloud platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles
• Experience supporting large, distributed systems within the Federal Government
• Clearance:
• Minimum Public Trust; US Citizenship and ability to maintain a High Risk Public Trust designation is required
• Other Required Skills & Qualifications:
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes operations. (AWS experience may be considered in lieu of Azure.)
• Deep hands-on experience with containerization technologies: Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and modular IaC.
• Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD and GitHub workflows.
• Strong experience in platform observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL).
• Self-motivation and self-sufficiency requiring minimal guidance to achieve technical objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with diverse technical teams.
• Continuous alignment with and adherence to AnaVation’s core values.
• Location/Hours:
• This position is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere within the continental United States.
• Regardless of location, this position requires full-time support during core Eastern Time business hours to align with our Government customer in Washington, DC.
• This position may require support outside of core business hours for outages, updates/upgrades, and other needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure Government and/or AWS GovCloud/C2S/SC2S
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance
• Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Administrator, and/or Developer)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS)
• IaC/DevOps certifications (Hashicorp/Terraform)
• AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Developer, and/or SysOps Administrator)
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
• 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Competitive Pay
• Generous paid leave and holiday package
• Tuition and training reimbursement
• Life and AD&D Insurance

About AnaVation

AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.

If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!