Director of DevSecOps

Steampunk is seeking a Director of Dev Sec Ops to lead and grow our Dev Sec Ops  practice across the Federal civilian and Department of Defense (DoD) markets. Reporting to the VP of Delivery and Growth, this leader is accountable for the technical strategy, solutioning, and delivery excellence of our work in cloud, software engineering, IT operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform engineering.

This is a rare blend of roles: a hands‑on technical visionary who can design a credible solution live in front of a client, a strategic seller who helps win new business, and a delivery‑minded leader who can turn a vision into an executable operational plan and rescue programs that are off track.

Responsibilities

• Solution on the spot: Architect and articulate cloud, Dev Sec Ops , SRE, and platform engineering solutions in real time with Federal civilian and DoD clients, adapting message and depth to audiences ranging from engineers to senior executives.

• Strategic sales leadership: Partner with Sales, Capture, and Growth leadership to shape account strategy, identify opportunities, and position Steampunk's differentiated point of view on Dev Sec Ops  with client executives.

• Business development: Lead technical solutioning for proposals and pursuits, including orals, technical challenges, and solution demonstrations; build and coach pursuit teams and ensure technical volumes are compelling, compliant, and winnable.

• Vision to execution: Translate strategic vision and win themes into tactical operational plans for delivery programs, including roadmaps, team structure, tooling, metrics, and milestones that Program Managers and delivery teams can execute.

• Collaborate with Office of Innovation and Technology Leadership: Collaborate with practice leads of our other capabilities to create integrate, cross functional solutions that solve complex customer problems.

• Program health and course correction: Assess current program challenges across technical, process, and team dimensions; diagnose root causes; and work with Operations Directors, Program Managers, and technical leads to course correct and restore delivery confidence.

• Practice leadership: Define, evolve, and demonstrate Steampunk's delivery approach for Dev Sec Ops , software development, IT operations, Cloud and testing; foster innovation and the adoption of emerging practices and technologies across client projects.

• Client relationships: Build and maintain trusted relationships with client executives, develop strategic vision for clients and internal teams, and provide technical and business guidance in challenging situations.

• Enterprise modernization services: Design and support delivery of enterprise‑class services that raise client organizational maturity and build a lasting culture of continuous improvement, including advanced practices like secure software supply chain, continuous ATO, Site Reliability Engineering and compliance automation.

• People leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop technical leaders and teams of software and IT operations professionals; monitor performance and training needs and create skills expansion and career advancement opportunities.

• Thought leadership: Serve as an internal and external thought leader through white papers, conference talks, training, and reusable accelerators that strengthen Steampunk's market reputation.

Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance (DoD work may require Secret or higher)

• BS degree in an IT field, or BS in a non-IT field and 2 years of related IT experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in cloud, software engineering, IT operations, testing and Dev Sec Ops , including leadership of technical teams as a…