Director, DevSecOps & Platform Engineering View ; opens in tab

Description

Phoenix Team is hiring a Director of Dev Sec Ops  & Platform Engineering to lead a total team of 30+ personnel across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Loan Guaranty (LGY) DSO 2.0 program. The position is accountable for staffing, budgets, delivery performance, and the reliability and security of the program's engineering platforms and production services.

The work spans multiple applications and work streams, including legacy systems that must remain operational as capabilities move to a Salesforce-centered platform supported by serverless services in a government cloud. Production systems operate 24/7, with releases at least monthly.

This position requires established senior management experience supported by substantial Dev Sec Ops  and platform engineering expertise. The Director works directly with federal customers and Phoenix Team leadership and remains involved in architecture reviews, major incidents, and technical decisions. Technical project leadership or architectural responsibility alone does not satisfy the management requirement.

• Lead workforce planning, hiring, performance management, coaching, and resource allocation across the Dev Sec Ops  and platform engineering team.
• Manage assigned operating budgets and cost forecasts against staffing needs, service obligations, and delivery commitments.
• Present staffing, financial, and operational performance to federal customers and Phoenix Team leadership, including deployment frequency, release quality, incident trends, recovery times, and manual engineering effort.
• Resolve competing priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks with architecture, product, cybersecurity, quality, and engineering teams.
• Direct CI/CD architecture, automated testing, and security and quality gates against the program's target of build, test, and deployment pipeline execution in under one hour.
• Establish release controls for production verification, zero-downtime deployment, reliable rollback, and the program's target of zero escaped critical defects.
• Direct infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices that control drift and allow complete environments to be provisioned or retired in days.
• Coordinate operational transitions, data exchanges, and decommissioning while keeping legacy systems stable, patched, and authorized throughout modernization.
• Own production availability against contractual service targets, including incident and problem management, root-cause remediation, capacity and performance management, and tested disaster recovery.
• Direct engineering support for authorization to operate (ATO), continuous monitoring, automated security evidence collection, and Zero Trust alignment.
• Maintain accountability for vulnerability remediation within the program's deadlines of 30 days for critical findings, 60 days for high findings, and 90 days for medium findings.
• Oversee monitoring across infrastructure, applications, interfaces, batch jobs, and end-to-end business transactions to detect and diagnose failures before customers report them.
• Direct AI-assisted engineering workflows for diagnostics, testing, vulnerability analysis, documentation, and developer self-service within approved federal boundaries, with human validation and measured operational improvements.

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience in Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, software engineering, production operations, or closely related technology disciplines.
• 8+ years of engineering or technical leadership experience.
• Established senior management responsibility across multiple technical teams, including personnel decisions and accountability for staffing, budgets, and delivery…