AWS Devops Engineer

Reqroute, Inc is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to provide technical leadership for Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environments. This role involves driving the architecture and engineering strategy for secure cloud platform capabilities and mentoring engineering teams to deliver scalable and automated platform solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments
• Lead architecture and design for centralized platform APIs, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and automated service onboarding
• Modernize manual federal deployment processes by implementing secure, automated, and policy-driven release workflows
• Establish best practices for deployment validation, operational readiness, audit compliance, rollback strategies, and change management
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to resolve dependencies and drive technical alignment across platform initiatives
• Conduct architecture and design reviews with a focus on security, observability, scalability, and operational excellence
• Mentor engineers, improve engineering standards, and promote best practices in design, code quality, documentation, and incident management
• Participate in technical planning, risk assessments, and executive-level engineering discussions
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements:

• 8–12+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, or Cloud Operations
• Proven experience leading large-scale cloud infrastructure or platform engineering initiatives
• Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud automation, and production-grade deployment pipelines
• Extensive experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, deployment orchestration, and production incident management
• Strong understanding of cloud security, observability, reliability, and compliance requirements
• Ability to translate regulatory and security requirements into scalable engineering solutions
• Excellent communication, leadership, architecture review, and mentoring skills
• Experience supporting FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, AWS GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated government cloud environments
• Experience developing platform APIs, continuous delivery frameworks, artifact promotion, deployment control planes, or platform engineering solutions
• Proven success automating complex operational processes and eliminating manual deployment workflows