Maintenance Technical Director
Listed on 2026-07-21
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IT/Tech
Systems Administrator, AWS, IT Infrastructure, IT Support
Maintenance Technical Director
Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a Maintenance Technical Director to own the technical health and lifecycle management of a VA health IT platform built on AWS Gov Cloud, hosting a large portfolio of production services across Kubernetes environments. You own all planned maintenance, patch management, software lifecycle tracking, and the Platform Dependency List.
Responsibilities include:
- Own and maintain the Platform Dependency List — a living inventory of all platform services, versions, EOL timelines, and integration dependencies
- Direct all platform maintenance windows and change requests through Service Now CCB
- Lead patch prioritization across AWS managed services (RDS, Document DB, Elasti Cache, MSK) and EC2-based services (MongoDB, Vault, Consul, Atlassian, Nexus)
- Track and remediate software components approaching EOL or carrying critical CVEs; coordinate POA&M entries with the RMF/Security Manager
- Author and maintain the Maintenance Plan deliverable within the required post-award window
- Enforce maintenance SLA windows ensuring maintenance activity does not impact business-hour availability
- Partner with the Senior Architect on architecture change reviews
Qualifications include:
- 8+ years of federal IT infrastructure or platform engineering
- Deep hands-on AWS experience: EKS, RDS, MSK/Kafka, Elasti Cache, Document DB, EFS, S3
- EC2-based enterprise middleware experience:
MongoDB, Hashi Corp Vault & Consul, Atlassian, Nexus - Kubernetes lifecycle management: node upgrades, namespace governance, cluster version management
- Federal IT change management experience (Service Now CCB or equivalent)
- Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials
Preferred qualifications include:
- Direct VA OIT / VAEC experience
- AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Istio lifecycle management experience
Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and may need to meet requirements for access to protected and/or classified information.
Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
Employee benefits include:
- Medical, Vision, Dental
- Paid Vacation & Sick Time
- Paid Federal Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Continued Education Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
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