Responsibilities
- Develop and oversee the organization's DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy, roadmap, and operational framework.
- Create, manage, and expand a diverse team of DevOps Managers, Platform Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers.
- Establish clear roles, career development paths, performance benchmarks, and succession planning.
- Promote a DevSecOps culture emphasizing automation, reliability, accountability, and ongoing enhancement.
- Act as the primary point of contact for executive escalations related to platform reliability, deployment risks, and operational maturity.
- Guide the architectural direction for multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) using Infrastructure as Code.
- Set enterprise standards for networking, IAM, encryption, key management, configuration baselines, environment consistency, and GitOps workflows.
- Ensure platform designs and automation comply with FedRAMP Moderate/High requirements and NIST 800-53 controls.
- Evaluate and approve new platform tools and cloud services.
- Lead the enterprise CI/CD strategy supporting various product and engineering teams.
- Standardize pipelines with reusable frameworks, integrated security scanning, and compliance validation.
- Enable self-service deployment models that balance speed with governance.
- Define and monitor DORA metrics, deployment success rates, and release reliability KPIs.
- Collaborate with Engineering leadership to enhance developer productivity and release cycles.
- Set organization-wide standards for observability, SRE practices, and reliability engineering.
- Ensure systems are equipped with metrics, logs, and traces aligned with defined SLIs and SLOs.
- Work with NOC and Security teams to enhance detection, alerting, and incident response.
- Lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements through automation and design changes.
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance leadership to integrate compliance-as-code across platforms and pipelines.
- Oversee DevOps and platform responsibilities for continuous monitoring, evidence automation, audit readiness, and secure secrets management.
- Ensure platform documentation, runbooks, and policies meet FedRAMP and 3PAO expectations.
- Serve as a technical leader during audits and compliance reviews.
- Implement FinOps practices across cloud environments, integrating cost controls into automation.
- Ensure consistent tagging, usage tracking, and cost attribution.
- Provide executive-level reporting on cloud spend, optimization opportunities, and ROI.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability, unlimited PEO, and an employee funded 401k plan.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Other
- This position requires U.S. citizenship due to the nature of work with federal government clients and compliance with applicable regulations. Dual citizenship is not permitted for this role. Candidates must provide documentation verifying sole U.S. citizenship status as part of the background check process.
- Any offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of all required pre-employment screenings, including a background check, in accordance with applicable laws and government contract requirements.
