Governance and Reporting Engineer
About The Position
Skyward is seeking a Platform Governance & Reporting Engineer to help manage its enterprise AI platform, ensuring visibility and governance for a healthy and trusted system. This role involves creating monitoring, metrics, and dashboards using tools like Datadog and cloud-native solutions to provide clear insights into platform health. The engineer will automate manual reporting processes, define and enforce platform guardrails (usage, access, operational standards), and implement governance and reporting through infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines. The position requires collaboration within a one-team culture across engineering, security, and CMS stakeholders.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or systems engineering.
- Solid AWS and DevOps skills: IaC (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD, and cloud-native monitoring.
- Real experience with observability and reporting tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk, or similar).
- Comfort scripting and automating in Python or Bash.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with platform governance or FinOps (cost/usage reporting, showback/chargeback).
- Familiarity with FISMA, RMF, ARS, or IS2P2 governance.
- Previous experience supporting CMS or another federal agency.
Responsibilities
- Help CMS run its enterprise AI platform with the visibility and governance that keep it healthy and trusted.
- Stand up monitoring, metrics, and dashboards (think Datadog and cloud-native tooling) that turn platform health into something the whole team can see.
- Replace manual status-gathering with automated pipelines that produce clean, on-demand governance and performance reporting.
- Define and enforce the guardrails (usage, access, and operational standards) that keep a multi-team platform running smoothly.
- Use infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD so governance and reporting are built in, not bolted on.
- Collaborate across engineering, security, and CMS stakeholders in a badgeless, one-team culture.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 15 days of paid leave
- 7 days of sick leave
- 2 days bereavement leave
- 11 paid Federal holidays
- Up to 40 hours for jury duty
- 401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)
- Up to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave
- Company provided laptop
- $5,000 per year for professional development
- $600 per year for technical supplies and equipment
- $2,000 referral bonus
- Life and disability insurance
- HSA and FSA
- Legal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits
- Opportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
