Platform Engineer

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