Staff Platform Engineer

Arch Systems

Staff Platform Engineer at Arch Systems focusing on secure cloud infrastructure operations. Contributing to deployment, compliance, incident response and operational reliability.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $170,000 - $218,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support deployment and operation of services in FedRAMP High-aligned environments
Work with compliance platforms and partners to support secure deployment workflows, controls, evidence collection, and operational readiness
Assist with security and compliance requirements for defense, government, and regulated customers
Translate compliance obligations into practical engineering work
Design, deploy, operate, and support cloud infrastructure across AWS and AWS GovCloud
Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code, primarily Terraform
Operate Kubernetes-based services and Helm-based deployment workflows across multiple environments
Improve reliability, observability, access controls, operational runbooks, and supportability of platform systems
Support regular release operations across multiple environments
Maintain and improve Helm charts, deployment pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and operational automation
Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, and escalation paths for regulated deployments

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, Security Engineering, or related roles
Demonstrated ability to independently own complex infrastructure or operations projects from design through production support
Hands-on experience operating production infrastructure in AWS
Hands-on experience owning Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform
Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads and Helm-based deployments
Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals
Experience supporting production systems, incident response, operational runbooks, release processes, and post-incident follow-up
Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical documentation, operational procedures, risk explanations, and compliance evidence.

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
retirement contributions
additional programs that support wellbeing and professional development
equity ownership

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure-as-CodeTerraformKubernetesAWSAWS GovCloudCI/CDHelmcloud securityoperational automationincident response

Soft Skills

communicationdocumentationproject ownershipoperational proceduresrisk explanation