Platform Engineer

Zachary Piper

Full-time Computer Occupations
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Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Posted
July 04, 2026

Job Description

Join Our Team as a Platform Engineer (REMOTE) at Zachary Piper Solutions!

As a Platform Engineer, you will support a mission-driven team focused on accelerating scientific discovery for a government customer by building and maintaining secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. You will design and operate AWS GovCloud environments, implement container orchestration strategies, and enable rapid, compliant software delivery through modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

·Design and deploy secure AWS GovCloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnetting strategies, security groups, IAM roles, and network controls.

·Build, optimize, and maintain Docker containers for Python Fast API backend services, improving portability and deployment consistency.

·Implement ECS/Fargate-based container orchestration, enabling scalable, highly available services with auto-scaling policies.

·Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or CloudF...