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Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.\nLead Platform Engineer\nLOCATION: Mclean, VA, Richmond, VA or NYC\nWho We Are:\nExiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.\nEngineering | Platform Engineering | Hybrid (US)\nU.S. Citizenship Required\nWe’re looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to be the technical lead for our largest, most cross-cutting platform programs. This is work that spans multiple engineering teams, has many stakeholders, and carries real security, compliance, and reliability risk across commercial AWS and our FedRAMP-authorized environments in AWS GovCloud.\nThe strongest candidates are excellent technical leaders who are also great to work with. At this level, your impact comes as much from sound judgment, clear communication, and the trust of other teams as from deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. You’ll lead through technical judgment and by making the engineers around you better.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead 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.\nMake and own architecture decisions across compute, network topology, identity, account structure, and delivery, and document the tradeoffs clearly.\nReduce complexity across platform services and processes by consolidating one-off patterns, retiring what’s no longer needed, and helping teams do more with less.\nDesign enterprise IaC frameworks and multi-region CI/CD with approval gates, automated rollback, and policy enforcement.\nArchitect guardrails and developer tooling so that every engineer can work safely in FedRAMP and GovCloud environments.\nDesign DR, capacity, and resilience strategies with explicit RTO/RPO targets, and validate them under sustained load, failure injection, and chaos testing.\nPartner with product, data, and AI/ML teams to design platform infrastructure that fits how those teams build and run their systems.\nCommunicate plans, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, security, compliance, federal program teams, and business stakeholders. Surface risks early and manage cross-team dependencies.\nOwn on-call escalation paths, lead the hardest incidents, and drive improvements to incident response across the teams the platform serves.\nSet platform best practices and quality standards that other teams adopt, including IaC testing, policy tests, and failure testing in CI.\nShape how the platform team adopts AI-assisted engineering tools, with clear validation standards and boundaries that respect federal compliance requirements.\nMentor and coach engineers across teams, delegate meaningful work, and help raise the hiring bar for platform roles.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nA track record as the technical lead on large, cross-team infrastructure or platform programs with many stakeholders.\nAdvanced, production-proven depth in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, and CI/CD, including architecture decisions that other teams had to live with.\nExcellent judgment on architecture across many aspects of a project, with the reasoning and rejected alternatives to show for it.\nConcrete examples of reducing complexity in systems or processes, with measurable outcomes.\nExperience translating FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2 requirements into automated, enforceable controls with continuous evidence.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, including design proposals, decision records, and incident reviews, and the ability to explain tradeoffs to engineers, auditors, and business leaders.\nEvidence of growing other engineers through mentoring, coaching, and delegation.\nStrong Python or Go skills for platform tooling and automation.\nTypically 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as a technical lead on cross-team programs. We calibrate on demonstrated scope and judgment, not tenure.\nU.S. citizenship, required for access to Exiger’s FedRAMP federal environments where legally required.\nNice to Have\nExperience with one or more of the following is a plus:\nLeading or playing a central role in a FedRAMP authorization, continuous monitoring program, or SOC 2 Type II audit\nAWS GovCloud, including partition isolation and service parity constraints\nAWS Professional or Specialty certifications, CKA/CKS, or HashiCorp Terraform certification\nInternal developer platforms or developer portals (Backstage or equivalent)\nService mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and container supply chain security\nHashiCorp Vault at scale\nChaos engineering (AWS Fault Injection Service, Chaos Mesh, Litmus)\nFinOps and automated cost controls\nInfrastructure for data and AI/ML workloads (GPU scheduling on EKS, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker)\nWhy This Role Matters\nEverything Exiger ships, commercial and federal, moves through our platform.\nAs Lead Platform Engineer, you’ll decide how simple, safe, and fast that path is for every engineering team. The architecture calls you make, the complexity you remove, and the engineers you grow will compound across the whole organization and give Exiger the foundation it needs to serve customers in highly regulated federal environments.\nWhy You’ll Love Working at Exiger:\nHigh-performance culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.\nDiscretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off\nIndustry leading health, vision, and dental benefits\nCompetitive compensation package\n16 weeks of fully paid parental leave\nFlexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable\nFocus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming\nPurposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications\nExiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.\nAt Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. 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