[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guidehouse is a consulting firm that provides a range of services including technology and management consulting. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads, design reusable Jenkins shared libraries, and standardize workflows for application teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a self-service application delivery platform for AWS workloads
• Design reusable Jenkins shared libraries and pipeline standards
• Create Terraform module stacks for ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM, and related AWS services
• Define the YAML-based application contract used by application teams
• Implement promotion workflows, approvals, drift prevention, and environment separation
• Partner with developers, security, and operations to deliver secure golden paths
• Design and develop end-to-end Jenkins Declarative and Scripted pipelines using Groovy to automate seamless code promotion from development through to production environments
• Build Terraform modules and root-module compositions for multi-service applications
• Support ECS Fargate and optional AWS capabilities such as S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM
• Standardize build, test, deploy, and approval workflows
• Establish Terraform state and environment management practices
• Create documentation, templates, and onboarding guides for application teams
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and cost efficiency

Skills

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD 'PUBLIC TRUST'; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred
• Bachelor's degree or additional FOUR (4) years experience in Lieu of degree
• Minimum of SEVEN (7) years Platform Development experience
• Strong AWS experience, especially ECS, IAM, S3, SQS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudWatch
• Hands-on Terraform experience, including module design and backend/state management
• Jenkins pipeline expertise, preferably shared libraries and multibranch pipelines
• Experience creating reusable platform abstractions for multiple services
• Good scripting ability in Bash or Python
• Understanding of SDLC, deployment strategies, and release governance
• Experience designing IDP (Internal developer platforms)
• Experience with Spring Boot or containerized Java services
• Experience with approval gates, policy enforcement, and environment promotion
• Experience with multi-account AWS design
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous patterns
• Experience onboarding application teams to shared tooling
• Experience supporting ServiceNow-based low-code applications

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

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