GPS - Azure Senior Platform Engineer - Assistant Director

Remote opportunity performed within the Continental United States.

• Own the delivery of cloud platform and infrastructure capabilities across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with business, mission, and security requirements.
• Set and guide technical direction for Azure Government platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable.
• Establish and evolve Dev Sec Ops  practices and automation approaches to improve delivery consistency, quality, and reliability.
• Make informed technical and delivery trade‑off decisions, balancing speed, quality, security, risk, and long‑term platform health.
• Lead architecture and design efforts, reviewing and approving solutions to ensure alignment with standards, constraints, and desired outcomes.
• Oversee risk, dependency, and issue management across delivery efforts, escalating and resolving proactively as needed.
• Influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and leadership teams to align priorities and drive execution without direct authority.
• Develop and grow engineering talent through coaching, feedback, and delegation, strengthening overall team capability.
• Promote operational excellence by continuously improving processes, tooling, and ways of working.

• Demonstrates accountability for outcomes, taking ownership of decisions and following through to execution.
• Applies sound judgment when operating in ambiguity, making trade‑offs that consider delivery impact, risk, and long‑term sustainability.
• Influences outcomes across teams and stakeholders through credibility, collaboration, and clear communication.
• Communicates complex technical and delivery topics effectively to technical, business, and executive audiences.
• Adapts approach as priorities, constraints, and requirements evolve while maintaining delivery momentum.
• Develops people and teams by providing clear direction, timely feedback, and opportunities for growth.
• Promotes a culture of quality, risk awareness, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates curiosity and continuous learning, staying current with evolving technologies, delivery practices, and firm direction.

• 7+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate (AZ‑104) and Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ‑305).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance
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• Strong hands‑on experience:
  Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure Dev Ops, ARM templates, or Ansible.
• Containers and orchestration – experience building and running containerized workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, or Helm for packaging and deploying services at scale.
• Networking fundamentals – strong foundation designing and troubleshooting VNets, subnets, network security groups (NSGs), routing (UDRs), and basic load‑balancing scenarios.
• Cloud security principles – solid understanding of shared responsibility, least privilege, identity‑driven security, network segmentation, encryption, and logging/monitoring.
• Identity and access – understanding of Microsoft Entra , Azure RBAC, Entra , Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities for Azure resources.
• Windows and Linux administration – hands‑on experience managing, troubleshooting, and hardening server workloads, including patching, performance tuning, and applying security baselines (e.g., DISA STIG).
• Scripting / programming – practical automation experience using Power Shell (Python or similar scripting languages is a plus but not required).
• Experience with government security frameworks (e.g., NIST controls).
• Hands‑on delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar).
• Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to work effectively on distributed teams.

• Deeper hands‑on experience with Git‑based source control and branching strategies.
• AWS/GCP cloud experience / knowledge.
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