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Platform and Reliability Engineer, Senior Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton

Washington, DCFull-time$143–266K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$143–266K/yr
Location
Washington, DC
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Platform and Reliability Engineer, Senior Manager will build and operate the secure, reliable foundation for enterprise agentic AI. The role provides cloud infrastructure, shared runtimes, model access, deployment pipelines, and observability services. It automates environments and security controls, monitors platform performance and cost, leads incident response and recovery, and works across engineering teams to validate operational readiness and maintain deployment standards and runbooks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Infrastructure as Code, requiredContainers, requiredOrchestration, requiredCI/CD Pipelines, requiredTerraform, requiredCloudFormation, requiredSite Reliability Engineering, requiredService Objectives, requiredAlerting, requiredIncident Response, requiredCapacity Planning, requiredDisaster Recovery, requiredCentralized Logging, requiredMetrics, requiredDistributed Tracing, requiredDashboards, requiredModel Gateway Operations, requiredAI Workload Operations, requiredLLMOps, requiredLLM Operations, requiredRate Limits, requiredRetries, requiredTimeouts, requiredRuntime Isolation, requiredConsumption Cost Management, requiredPython, requiredBash, requiredOperational Workflow Automation, requiredDistributed Systems Troubleshooting, requiredSupport Documentation, requiredReadiness Evaluation, requiredTechnical Handoffs, requiredAWS, requiredDatabricks, requiredNetworking, requiredIdentity Management, requiredSecrets Management, requiredAccess Controls, requiredFinOps, nice to haveAutomated Recovery, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or 9+ Years Experience, required8+ Years Production Infrastructure Experience, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Platform and Reliability Engineer, Senior ManagerThe Opportunity: Build and operate the secure, reliable foundation for enterprise agentic AI. You will provide cloud infrastructure, shared runtimes, model access, deployment pipelines, and observability services that enable engineering teams to deliver and operate AI solutions.

You will automate environments and security controls, monitor availability, latency, throughput, token consumption, and cost, and lead shared-platform incident response and recovery. Working with AI engineering, data engineering, and forward-deployed engineering, you will validate operational readiness and maintain deployment standards and runbooks. Your accountability centers on shared platform reliability, security infrastructure, and production operations.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, containers, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, including automated security and deployment checks using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Experience applying site reliability engineering practices, including service objectives, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
  • Experience implementing centralized logs, metrics, distributed traces, and dashboards to diagnose production failures and performance issues
  • Experience operating model gateways or AI workloads, and implementing LLMOps practices
  • Knowledge of LLM operational requirements, including model gateways, rate limits, retries, timeouts, runtime isolation, and consumption costs
  • Ability to automate operational workflows using languages such as Python or Bash, and troubleshoot distributed systems
  • Ability to document support responsibilities, evaluate readiness evidence, and coordinate technical handoffs across teams
  • Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in AWS and Databricks, including networking, identity, secrets management, and access controls, or 9+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in AWS and Databricks, including networking, identity, secrets management, and access controls, in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

  • Experience with FinOps, automated recovery, performance testing, or secure enterprise environments

Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $142,900.00 to $266,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date. Identity Statement As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

  • Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
  • Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role.
  • Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed full-time at a customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

How this job compares

Set against the 4,119 open Platform Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$143–266K/yr
  • Washington, D.C. median$111–210K/yr50 salary ranges
  • US median$122–227K/yr3,388 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $204K, is 27% above the Washington, D.C. median midpoint ($161K) — in the top quarter of Platform Engineer salary ranges in Washington, D.C..

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 64 open Platform Engineer jobs in Washington, D.C. and 4,119 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington, D.C.
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Platform Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (3,367 postings).
Education
999 of the 4,119 open Platform Engineer jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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