About the role
Client is a multinational technology and consulting company known for its expertise in providing IT services and solutions. With a global presence, it offers a wide range of services including digital transformation, application development, infrastructure management, and business process outsourcing. The company has a strong focus on innovation, leveraging emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics to drive client success. Client is committed to delivering high-quality results and ensuring customer satisfaction through its team of skilled professionals and robust project management methodologies.
Rate: $55.71/Hr
Job Description:
- Our Platform Services team is hiring a technical leader to shape the architecture and direction of Platform Services for FedRAMP High and IL5. This role will influence technical decisions across centralized platform APIs, reusable CI components, continuous delivery workflows, service onboarding, federal promotion automation, and paved-road platform capabilities.
- This is a system-level technical leadership role.
- You should be able to take a broad perspective, guide other engineers, build consensus across teams, and make strong contributions under time pressure on mission-critical systems. You will lead design direction, coordinate complex work, and raise the technical bar through architecture reviews, mentorship, and clear communication.
- Set the technical strategy for Platform Services work supporting FedRAMP High and IL5.
- Own key architectural decisions for centralized platform APIs, CI components, continuous delivery workflows, automated service onboarding, and federal promotion gates.
- Lead the move from manual federal promotion processes toward reliable, automated, gated delivery workflows.
- Define patterns for service onboarding, deployment validation, operational readiness, audit-friendly change control, and rollback safety.
- Partner with other teams to align dependencies, remove blockers, and drive clear technical decisions across the federal build-out.
- Lead design reviews for services moving into federal environments, with attention to isolation, observability, security controls, and operational ownership.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; raise the quality of designs, code reviews, runbooks, and incident analysis.
- Represent Platform Services in program planning, execution commit work, risk reviews, and senior engineering discussions.
- Communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to stakeholders and help the team reach durable decisions.
- 8-12 years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, infrastructure, distributed systems, or cloud operations.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multi-team infrastructure or platform programs.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar languages, plus experience with infrastructure-as-code and production automation.
- Deep experience operating large-scale cloud or hybrid-cloud systems with strong reliability, security, and observability requirements.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment orchestration, Kubernetes, AWS, and production incident response.
- Ability to translate compliance and security requirements into practical engineering systems and operating models.
- Excellent written communication, architecture review, mentoring, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Experience building or operating FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated environments.
- Experience with platform APIs, progressive delivery, CI components, continuous delivery, artifact promotion, or deployment control planes.
- Experience leading automation of previously manual operational workflows.
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD Automation
About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.
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