# FDA - Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer Location: Remote (U.S.) Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required; must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust (active Public Trust a plus) Employment Type: Full-time Make an Impact on Federal Health: Join Rackner to build and operate the secure, cloud-native platform that powers data, analytics, and AI/ML for a federal health mission. You won't just run infrastructure - you'll own the internal developer platform that data scientists, data engineers, and application teams build on every day. Shape where it goes next: production-grade MLOps, self-service onboarding, and a paved road from commit to GovCloud. Who You Are: 7+ years in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Site Reliability, or Cloud Engineering, with senior-level ownership of a production platform Built an internal developer platform / PaaS from the ground up for federal clients - and taken it to production (through ATO) in a federal program, not just contributed to one Extensive hands-on experience across both the open-source cloud-native/data ecosystem (Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Karpenter/KEDA, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, Trino, Dagster, dbt) and the AWS services that back them (EKS, S3, Glue,

- **Id**: 1006144
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rackner-fda-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T19:30:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T10:16:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4926
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Home office
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 687090
- **Name**: Rackner
- **Domain**: rackner.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rackner>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 61
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0.647
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 114000
- **Max usd**: 213000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 395

## Technologies

- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **cert-manager** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **Gateway API** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Karpenter** — Optional: no
- **KEDA** — Optional: no
- **KServe** — Optional: no
- **Kubeflow** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Kyverno** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Loki** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **NIST 800-53** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Progressive Delivery** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Seldon Core** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T16:34:56Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-13T19:00:39Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-23T22:01:43Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 19
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.418
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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