Platform Operations Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•Washington, DC

9h•$112,800 - $257,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Platform operations require a unique blend of cloud engineering expertise, operational rigor, and leadership. As a Senior 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 data platform and translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan. You’ll bring deep cloud operations experience and hands‑on Databricks and AWS GovCloud expertise to support and modernize essential government financial systems in an enterprise data platform. 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. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way our clients use technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. As a technical leader, you’ll shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth.

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading teams performing platform operations, cloud operations, site reliability engineering, and infrastructure engineering
Experience operating and supporting data platforms in AWS GovCloud, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and security services
Experience in managing cloud infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑code tools and designing, deploying, and operating Databricks on restricted, regulated, or secure cloud environments
Experience supporting production workloads for distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containerized environments, including Docker or Kubernetes, and Kafka
Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
Experience in automation for operational tasks, patching, configuration management, and environment provisioning
Knowledge of cloud security best practices, logging, monitoring, incident response, and compliance frameworks required in government environments
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting or modernizing government financial systems
Experience operating within multi‑cloud or hybrid‑cloud environments
Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda, or AWS MKS
Experience with SRE‑aligned principles such as reliability engineering, fault injection, and Chaos Engineering
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or equivalent certification
Databricks Data Engineering – Associate or Professional or equivalent certification

Responsibilities

Guide the operation and evolution of a secure, scalable cloud data platform.
Translate customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan.
Support and modernize essential government financial systems in an enterprise data platform.
Lead the implementation of resilient cloud architectures, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring.
Transform the way clients use technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems.
Shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth.
Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, operational readiness reviews, and high-availability engineering.