Operations Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Usa, DC

8d•Remote

About The Position

Platform operations requires a unique blend of cloud engineering expertise, operational rigor, and leadership. As a Platform Operations Lead, you understand how to build resilient systems, ensure operational excellence, and maintain secure, compliant environments at scale. We’re looking for someone like you to ensure the reliability and performance of critical financial platforms hosted in AWS GovCloud. As a Platform Operations Lead at Booz Allen, you will guide the operation and evolution of a secure, scalable cloud platform. You’ll bring deep cloud operations experience and hands‑on AWS GovCloud expertise to support and modernize essential government financial systems. You will lead the implementation of resilient cloud architectures, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring to meet the stringent performance, compliance, and security requirements of public sector financial operations. Join us and help ensure seamless operations, optimal platform performance, and ongoing regulatory compliance of mission‑critical cloud systems. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience supporting cloud-based and enterprise-scale platforms
Experience in an operational role in AWS GovCloud
Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation
Experience supporting complex distributed systems, containerized services, and CI/CD pipelines
Experience in cloud operations security, monitoring, logging, and incident response
Experience with event-driven platforms, including Kafka, such as Confluent, Redpanda , or AWS MKS
Public Trust
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes-native infrastructure tools, such as Crossplane
Experience modernizing or supporting government financial systems
Experience in a multi-cloud operational role
Experience with Chaos Engineering or SRE testing frameworks
Experience with quality assurance automated testing strategy
AWS, Azure, or GCP professional-level certifications

Responsibilities

Guide the operation and evolution of a secure, scalable cloud platform.
Bring deep cloud operations experience and hands‑on AWS GovCloud expertise to support and modernize essential government financial systems.
Lead the implementation of resilient cloud architectures, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring to meet the stringent performance, compliance, and security requirements of public sector financial operations.
Ensure seamless operations, optimal platform performance, and ongoing regulatory compliance of mission‑critical cloud systems.