Senior Federal Platform Engineer
About the role
Description
Keeper Security is hiring a Senior Federal Platform Engineer to support the deployment, operation, and sustainment of Keeper solutions across U.S. Government environments, including IL5, IL6, and classified networks. This is a 100% remote position with travel as needed.
About Keeper
Keeper Security is a leading cybersecurity software company that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in more than 150 countries. Keeper delivers a powerful zero-trust and zero-knowledge solution built to meet the stringent requirements of federal IT environments. Its flagship offering, KeeperPAM, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects users, devices, and critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper combines robust compliance with unmatched visibility and control. With industry-leading certifications, including FedRAMP High and GovRAMP Moderate Authorization, Keeper provides the security assurance public sector organizations require.
About the Role
The Senior Federal Platform Engineer will be responsible for the hands-on delivery, deployment, automation, and sustainment of Keeper solutions in high-security U.S. Government environments. This role combines DevOps, platform engineering, release engineering, and site reliability responsibilities, with a strong focus on restricted and controlled environments. You will build and maintain deployment pipelines, automate infrastructure, support release and cutover activities, troubleshoot production issues, and help ensure systems remain secure, reliable, and audit-ready across IL5, IL6, and classified deployments. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating in environments where change control is strict, access is limited, and operational rigor is critical.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows for federal environments
- Support software releases, deployment execution, cutovers, validation, rollback planning, and post-release monitoring across IL5, IL6, and classified networks
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
- Maintain hardened infrastructure, configuration baselines, patching processes, and operational controls for restricted environments
- Troubleshoot complex deployment, infrastructure, application, and platform issues in coordination with Engineering and Security teams
- Build and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational telemetry to improve system visibility and reliability
- Support incident response, recovery, postmortems, and corrective actions for federal platform environments
- Partner with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to improve deployment readiness, operability, and release quality
- Maintain runbooks, deployment documentation, operational procedures, and configuration records for federal systems
- Support continuous monitoring, audit readiness, and authorization activities by producing required technical evidence and artifacts
- Assist with vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance drift detection, and system configuration validation
- Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, Chat