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Deputy Director Of Platform Engineering

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Role Overview The Platform Engineering organization operates the Virtual Cloud Computing Center, or VC3, a foundational engineering capability across Electronic Systems. VC3 is a secure, multi-region engineering development platform that delivers Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service products that enable engineering teams to develop, integrate, test, and deliver modernized workloads across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments.

Platform Engineering is seeking a Deputy Director of Platform Engineering to provide technical, operational, and organizational leadership for VC3 and its supporting products. Reporting to the Director of Platform Engineering, the Deputy Director will translate platform strategy into executable architectures, product roadmaps, operational priorities, and measurable engineering outcomes. The Deputy Director will lead the day-to-day integration of Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops Engineering, IT Operations, Security Engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure engineering, and platform product teams.

The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in both executive-level discussions and detailed technical engagements. This is not solely a program-management position. The Deputy Director must have the technical judgment to guide engineering decisions, evaluate risk, lead through significant operational events, and ensure VC3 continues to evolve as a secure, reliable, scalable, and product-oriented platform. This position will be performed in a hybrid work format, with time split between onsite and remote work.

Specific Job Responsibilities Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as the principal deputy to the Director of Platform Engineering and represent the organization in technical, operational, investment, and governance forums.
• Lead the integrated execution of Platform Engineering priorities across engineering, operations, and security disciplines.
• Translate business and platform strategy into prioritized roadmaps, investment plans, organizational goals, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide leadership and governance for the architecture, delivery, operation, security, resilience, and lifecycle management of VC3 products.
• Advance VC3 as a product-oriented engineering platform by improving self-service, standardization, reliability, user experience, and adoption.
• Lead the VC3 initiative portfolio, including priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, dependencies, risks, and expected business value.
• Build strong partnerships with engineering programs, business areas, SecureIT, facilities, finance, supply chain, and enterprise technology organizations.
• Lead, develop, and retain engineering managers, technical leaders, architects, and individual contributors while promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.

Technical Depth Expectations The Deputy Director must possess sufficient technical depth to assess architectures, challenge assumptions, identify risk, and guide decisions across the Platform Engineering portfolio. The successful candidate should demonstrate strong expertise in several of the following areas:

• Private, hybrid, and public-cloud architecture, including virtualization and multi-region environments.
• Platform Engineering, internal developer platforms, service catalogs, self-service, golden paths, and platform-as-a-product practices.
• Kubernetes, container platforms, workload isolation, networking, storage, security, and lifecycle management.
• Infrastructure as Code, Git Ops, policy as code, APIs,…