[Hiring] Senior Cloud Platform Engineer @AnaVation

Role Description

AnaVation is seeking a REMOTE Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with deep experience in Azure, AKS, IaC, and SRE practices. You will build, deploy, and operate a cloud-native platform that processes and analyzes digital evidence for legal investigations. Our environment is highly containerized, fully automated, and built around Azure services, AKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, and GitOps workflows.

What you will be doing:

• Operate and optimize AKS: upgrades, scaling, node pools, troubleshooting.
• Build and manage IaC with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Implement GitOps with Argo CD and GitHub workflows.
• Deploy and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Manage Azure networking, identity, and security (VNets, Private Link, RBAC, Key Vault).
• Run Azure data services: PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Service Bus, Redis, AI Search, Storage, ACR.
• Own reliability: monitoring, alerting, KQL dashboards, incident response, performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant field.
• Five (5) years of hands-on experience cloud platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles.
• Experience supporting large, distributed systems within the Federal Government.

Requirements

• Minimum Public Trust; US Citizenship and ability to maintain a High Risk Public Trust designation is required.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernetes operations. (AWS experience may be considered in lieu of Azure.)
• Deep hands-on experience with containerization technologies: Docker, Helm, Kustomize.
• Deep hands-on experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and modular IaC.
• Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD and GitHub workflows.
• Strong experience in platform observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL).
• Self-motivation and self-sufficiency requiring minimal guidance to achieve technical objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with diverse technical teams.
• Continuous alignment with and adherence to AnaVation’s core values.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure Government and/or AWS GovCloud/C2S/SC2S.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
• Azure certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Administrator, and/or Developer).
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS).
• IaC/DevOps certifications (Hashicorp/Terraform).
• AWS certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, Developer, and/or SysOps Administrator).
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization strategies.

Benefits

• Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents.
• 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents.
• 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance.
• 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents.
• 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting.
• Competitive Pay.
• Generous paid leave and holiday package.
• Tuition and training reimbursement.
• Life and AD&D Insurance.