Task Order Manager
About The Position
The Task Order Manager will coordinate Agile delivery across product managers, developers, QA engineers, and federal stakeholders. The role serves as the engineering authority within cross-functional delivery teams, guiding architecture, DevSecOps implementation, cloud-native design, and infrastructure-as-code practices while ensuring architectural consistency, governance compliance, and alignment with mission objectives. The position supports day-to-day delivery and long-term modernization strategy for AWS-hosted, microservices-based platforms. It combines hands-on engineering leadership with cross-team coordination to build cohesive, high-performance teams and deliver secure, scalable, and compliant systems. The manager defines and enforces technical strategy, coaches teams, guides architectural decisions, resolves impediments, and supports platform stability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 15+ years of professional engineering experience.
- Expertise in cloud architecture with at least one major provider; AWS is preferred.
- Experience with Agile delivery and team leadership.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
- Full-stack engineering experience with Java/Node.js and modern front-end frameworks.
- Experience with API design and microservices.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with testing strategies and federal security practices.
- DHS EOD background investigation.
Nice To Haves
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or Security Specialty.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, JMS, SQS/SNS, Kafka, Lambda, NiFi, and PKI environments.
- Familiarity with Mocha or Chai, DevOps environments, Istio service mesh, and OpenAPI 3.0.
- Excellent communication, documentation, mentoring, and stakeholder coordination skills.
Responsibilities
- Plan and deliver software within Agile frameworks, coordinate sprint execution, and participate in program-level ceremonies.
- Partner with Product Managers to turn business direction into actionable technical plans and achievable increments.
- Define architectural standards, patterns, and conventions for cloud-native applications, microservices, and API design.
- Lead technology-stack selection to support scalability, maintainability, and federal security expectations.
- Establish and optimize CI/CD pipelines and development workflows in alignment with program architecture and DevSecOps practices.
- Build serverless and containerized AWS platforms using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, ECS/Fargate, and distributed messaging.
- Implement infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation to support consistent, secure, automated environment deployments.
- Ensure engineering teams follow federal security guidelines, governance controls, accessibility requirements, and program objectives.
- Embed secure coding and DevSecOps practices, including automated scanning, vulnerability mitigation, and policy as code.
- Mentor developers, SDETs, cloud engineers, and DevSecOps personnel across multiple scrum teams to improve engineering standards and delivery quality.
- Remove technical roadblocks and facilitate communication across QA, security, operations, and management.
Benefits
- Flexible time off benefit.
- Learning resources and learning and development opportunities.
- Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Competitive compensation and benefits options designed to support employees and their families.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
