Top Remote Senior Level DevOps & Platform Engineering Jobs in Washington DC,

Lead reliability strategy and architecture for critical systems, drive incident management and root-cause analysis, build automation and SRE tooling, influence release/change practices and compliance, and mentor junior engineers to improve operational reliability.

The role involves managing compute infrastructure for decentralized applications, requiring critical thinking, documentation skills, and experience in Kubernetes and blockchain management.

Lead identification and design of automation and AI solutions across departments: document current workflows, produce future-state architectures and POCs, present to leadership, and hand off implementable designs to engineering and data teams to scale operations without proportional headcount growth.

As a Staff Observability Engineer, you will drive the architecture roadmap for observability systems, ensuring SLO alignment and effective stakeholder engagement while managing observability tools and processes.

Lead development, customization, and troubleshooting of scoped ServiceNow applications and workflows. Build integrations (SOAP/REST/LDAP/SSO), import/data transforms, reports, and dashboards. Run code reviews, document designs, and partner with customers in discovery, workshops, implementations, and post-go-live support to ensure successful delivery and adoption.

Develop and enhance developer toolchains, collaborate on CI improvements, support automation tools, and monitor internal process performance.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for a 12-month AI Platform SRE transformation: align executives, define SRE operating model, guide architecture and tooling, track reliability and automation metrics, and oversee phased vendor-to-client transitions.

Lead design, implement, and maintain cloud-native microservices and platform services for high-throughput supply chain systems. Own architecture, reliability, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product, data science, and customer teams to deliver scalable API and data solutions.

Build and operate the Internal Engineering Platform: automate CSP resource provisioning, manage Kubernetes clusters, networking, scheduling/autoscaling, maintain Crossplane and Terraform modules, partner with application teams, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and scalability.

Lead and grow an SRE team for FedRAMP/DoD-compliant government cloud environments. Ensure availability, performance, capacity, incident response, automation, and Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) to maintain ATOs and regulatory evidence for audits.