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About The Position

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in cloud platform engineering and technical leadership
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering or related field
• Expert experience providing technical leadership for complex enterprise cloud platforms and mission-critical systems in an Agile SAFe environment
• Expert experience in system sustainment, platform engineering, and operational reliability practices
• Expert experience with AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster management, node operations, Amazon Machine Images (AMI) governance, and Kubernetes platform engineering
• Expert knowledge of AWS managed services (e.g., EKS, Relational Database Services/RDS, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, Athena)
• Expert ability to lead platform architecture design including high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) documentation, multi-region strategies, and system dependency mapping
• Excellent experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Excellent experience enforcing 100% IaC provisioning and automated drift detection
• Excellent knowledge of EC2-based services (e.g., Consul, Vault, MongoDB, Atlassian, Active Directory, Nexus, Postfix)
• Excellent understanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) operations, TLS certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management using Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Above average experience with Change Control Board (CCB) facilitation, ServiceNow integration, and production change governance
• Knowledge of VA Technical Reference Model (TRM) compliance and VA Enterprise Architecture standards
• Knowledge of PI-level planning for platform engineering teams
• Experience supporting Federal Government programs and large-scale enterprise applications operating in cloud-based or hybrid environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance
• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Responsibilities

• Maintains regular communication with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and Government technical leadership
• Provides senior technical oversight for all architecture, engineering, and maintenance activities ensuring 99.995% incident-free availability for mission-critical applications
• Delivers and maintains the Architecture Package (HLD/LLD), architecture, engineering, and maintenance assessment, and maintenance plan within contractual timelines
• Leads the design and delivery of the Scheduling Event Bus to production, supporting enterprise scheduling across VistA and other healthcare applications
• Develops and implements the Multi-Region Enablement Plan including failover strategies, Recovery Time Objective (RTO)/Recovery Point Objective (RPO) definitions, and cost modeling for VA AWS GovCloud US-West and US-East environments
• Enforces 100% IaC provisioning via Terraform and ensures configuration drift detection runs at least weekly and is remediated within 3 business days
• Oversees certificate lifecycle management ensuring 100% of TLS certificates are renewed 30+ days prior to expiration using automated mechanisms
• Facilitates daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings and ensures 100% of production changes are executed within Government-approved change windows with documented backout plans
• Delivers Monthly Maintenance Reports tracking all performance standards
• Identifies and escalates any objectives not meeting expectations
• Ensures all platform software operates on VA TRM-approved versions with no End-of-Life/End-of-Support (EOS) software in production

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.