Program Engineer, Federal Platform & IT Services

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Program Engineer, Federal Platform & IT Services based in United States.

This is a senior technical leadership opportunity focused on advancing federal cloud platforms, IT services, infrastructure, and compliance programs.
You will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, security, compliance, product, and operations teams.
The role combines hands-on technical depth with program leadership across highly regulated and security-sensitive environments.
You will drive initiatives spanning AWS and GovCloud, infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, Zero Trust identity, and platform reliability.
You will also help strengthen observability, operational readiness, security automation, and continuous compliance.
As the federal platform organization grows, you will have the opportunity to shape team practices, mentor engineers, and influence technical strategy.
This is an impactful role for an experienced engineering leader who thrives on solving complex problems and delivering mission-critical technology at scale.

Accountabilities:

• Lead end-to-end execution of complex federal platform, IT services, cloud infrastructure, automation, and security programs, managing timelines, risks, dependencies, milestones, and stakeholder expectations.
• Partner with Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations leadership to establish program strategies, technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable success criteria.
• Oversee major AWS and federal cloud initiatives, with a focus on scalability, security, cost efficiency, resilience, and operational performance.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud automation practices, including Terraform adoption, automated deployments, and reduced reliance on manual change management.
• Lead enterprise disaster recovery programs, including cross-region failover architecture, recovery time and recovery point objective validation, and recurring resilience testing.
• Drive Zero Trust identity initiatives, including privileged access management, SCIM expansion, and automated identity lifecycle management within federal environments.
• Support FedRAMP High hardening, STIG validation, continuous compliance monitoring, and alignment with DoD Impact Levels, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other applicable requirements.
• Collaborate with security and compliance leadership to maintain audit readiness and integrate security-by-design principles into platform and IT services programs.
• Improve deployment pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, release governance, observability, monitoring, incident response, and overall platform reliability.
• Define and monitor service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets in collaboration with engineering and security teams.
• Build, recruit, mentor, and develop a growing Federal Platform Operations engineering team while establishing scalable methodologies, tools, and operating practices.
• Serve as a technical liaison across teams, ensuring clear communication, effective dependency management, and alignment between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches depending on program requirements and operational context.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and use AI-enabled tools to improve technical research, documentation, program analysis, communication, and workflow efficiency.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in federal IT, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or comparable technical environments supporting government or regulated missions.
• 4+ years of experience leading technical programs, platform initiatives, or complex cross-functional engineering projects within SaaS, cloud-native, cybersecurity, or similarly technical environments.
• Demonstrated experience delivering against FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, STIG, or DoD Cloud Computing SRG requirements.
• Strong AWS expertise, including services such as ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, and IAM; AWS GovCloud experience is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, container platforms, cloud automation, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, modern platform engineering, automation, and operational practices within federal or highly regulated environments.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana, along with associated incident-management processes.
• Proven ability to manage complex initiatives involving numerous stakeholders, competing priorities, technical dependencies, and high-security requirements.
• Experience building, mentoring, or leading technical teams, particularly within high-growth environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders and manage expectations effectively.
• Ability to use AI-enabled tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar platforms for technical research, documentation, analysis, and program execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of the federal contracts.
• Preferred qualifications include AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Security – Specialty, Terraform, PMP, or comparable certifications.
• Direct experience achieving or maintaining FedRAMP High or DoD IL5 authorization, supporting third-party assessments, or working with NIST 800-53 control families is highly valued.
• Experience with secrets management, privileged access management, identity security, security automation, compliance-as-code, AI security, or AI governance is a plus.
• An active security clearance or the ability to obtain a high-level U.S. Government clearance is preferred.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including coverage options for domestic partnerships.
• Employer-paid life insurance, with supplemental life insurance options for employees, spouses, and children.
• Voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) options.
• Generous paid time off, including provisions for bereavement and jury duty.
• Above-market annual bonus opportunities.
• Opportunity to work on mission-critical federal cloud, cybersecurity, and infrastructure initiatives.
• Senior-level opportunity to influence technical strategy, program execution, and the growth of a specialized engineering organization.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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