Hiring: Senior Platform Engineer Company: Bixal Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 11:53:35 Employment Type: Contract / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Datadog, FedRAMP, GitLab, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform About the job Experience: •8 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. •At least 8 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Required Skills: •This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a mission-critical federal platform that aligns with Bixal's mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success. •Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Terraform templates supporting the engineering platform. •Implement and maintain observability on Datadog, including instrumentation, alerting, and service-level objectives. •Support environment automation and golden-path delivery. •Improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency across agency services. •Implement monitoring and alerting that support effective incident response and production operations. •Eliminate recurring operational work through automation, improving team velocity. •Deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. •Hands-on experience building and maintaining delivery pipelines, infrastructure automation, and shared platform services for high-availability systems. •Demonstrated ability to improve environment stability, deployment safety, and configuration consistency. •Strong automation skills to eliminate recurring operational work and improve team velocity. •Able to independently deliver platform improvements with measurable impact on reliability and developer productivity. •Solid understanding of Datadog, GitLab and FedRAMP-authorized toolchains. •This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Tier 4 / High Risk Public Trust determination in support of a federal government contract. •Exposure to AI-assisted coding tools for boilerplate or IaC generation. •Prior federal or large-scale enterprise platform engineering experience. Compensation: •$145,000 - $155,000 / year •We make compensation decisions thoughtfully, considering your experience, the skills you bring, and our commitment to internal equity Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!