Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – REMOTE
Company: AnaVation LLC
Location: Washington, DC (Remote)
Salary: $85,678.38 - $200,993.63 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-10-21
About this role
Be Challenged and Make a Difference
In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.
Description of Task to be Performed:
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.
US Citizenship with a Public Trust, Secret, or Top Secret clearance and experience supporting the Federal Government is REQUIRED.
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.
### Required Qualifications:
- Minimum Qualifications (Education/Certications, Experience, etc):
- 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
- Clearance:
- Minimum Public Trust; US Citizenship and ability to maintain a High Risk Public Trust designation is required
- Other Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Deep hands-on experience with Azure, AKS, and Kubernet...