Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – REMOTE

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