United States onlyWe're hiring a Chief Engineer to lead cross-functional teams in modernizing a leading, global-scale multi-cloud environment in support of a critical mission, supporting USAF system resiliency, security, and cost effectiveness.
Requirements
- Lead cross functional teams development and implementation of scalable cloud-native solutions
- Ensure best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security
- Implement and lead cross-discipline integration among teams within the contract
- Apply systems engineering principles throughout the systems lifecycle phases
- Interact with the Government regarding Engineering technical considerations
- Communicate with other program personnel, government overseers, and senior executives
- Provide matrixed leadership over approximately 150 engineers, operators, architects, and cybersecurity professionals
- Lead using software engineering and security principles to build and maintain scalable, highly reliable, and performant large-scale systems
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for secure, automated software delivery
- Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant systems for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability and performance
- Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and CloudWatch
- Work with operations leadership to implement incident response and postmortem processes to drive continuous improvement
- Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into application design and deployment
- Lead capacity planning including forecasting resource needs to ensure systems can scale effectively
- Ensure compliance with security best practices, including IAM, VPC design, and encryption standards
- Implement DevSecOps pipelines for a variety of technical stacks on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Lead the implementation of infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Lead the deployment and management of applications on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Configure and optimize container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
- Maintain high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud-based systems
- Configure and maintain virtualized environments to ensure performance, scalability, and security
- Support infrastructure modernization efforts by integrating virtualization solutions into hybrid cloud environments
- Implement automated security tools for vulnerability scanning, static/dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and container security
- Drive consistency for deployment and build processes
- Establish proactive monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and availability
- Embed security best practices into the SDLC and CI/CD processes
- Develop strategy and integration methodology around design, development and implementation of cloud based solutions
- Enable the quick development and release of changes and bug-fixes on an as-required basis and incorporate feedback from developers/users
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Present architectural designs and recommendations to executive leadership
- Mentor, guide and supervise teams for related activities
- Lead reviews and provide guidance on complex technical decisions
- Collaborate with team members and provide mentorship to junior staff, fostering a learning environment
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
