Key skills
Kubernetes orchestrationInfrastructure automationMulti-cloud environmentsSecure CI/CD pipelinesLinux systems maintenanceNetworking conceptsCompliance frameworksSupply chain securityAI/ML backgroundDistributed systems architectureAIMLKafkaAWSAzureTerraformKubernetesGitHub ActionsEKSAKSHelmArgoCDPrometheusGrafanaGitHubSaaSCI/CD
About this role
HiddenLayer protects the world’s most valuable technologies from adversarial AI attacks. They are seeking a Platform Engineer to take ownership of deploying and managing their multi-prem platform architecture across diverse customer environments, ensuring operational excellence and alignment with their SaaS platform.
Responsibilities:
- Lead deployment and lifecycle management of our multi-prem platform across commercial cloud, bare-metal, air-gapped, and IL4+ environments
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc.) to automate consistent deployments across customer sites
- Ensure our customer-hosted builds (“shrink-wrapped” software) remain closely aligned with our continuously deployed SaaS platform
- Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container build pipelines (EKS, K0s, AKS, or on-prem distributions)
- Implement secure and reproducible container image build pipelines, aligned with our internal release processes
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to harden deployments for regulated, classified, and air-gapped customer systems
- Document and version deployment patterns, templates, and procedures to support both automation and accreditation workflows
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, and upgrade cycles across multiple platform footprints
- Contribute to the overall architecture and evolution of the multi-prem reference design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security parity with SaaS
Requirements:
- U.S. Citizen (required) and eligible for U.S. Government clearance (Secret or higher preferred)
- Proven success deploying and operating complex systems across multi-cloud and on-prem environments
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes orchestration, container pipelines, and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD)
- Strong foundation in networking concepts: DNS, routing, VPC design, VPNs, firewalls, and service meshes
- Proficient with secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Experience maintaining Linux systems, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch), and automation tooling
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD SRG, or NIST 800-53
- Active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance
- 5+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Experience deploying workloads into AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other regulated cloud environments
- Experience deploying and maintaining software in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments
- Knowledge of supply chain security (SLSA, SBOM, image signing, provenance)
- Background in AI/ML or data-centric security platforms is a plus
- Familiarity with Temporal, Kafka, or distributed systems architecture
- Experience maintaining multi-tenant platform parity between SaaS and customer-hosted versions