AWS Technical Lead

What You'll Do

• Own the current state of AWS systems and work with the team to identify gaps and areas for improvements
• In partnership with the operations lead, work to improve operational excellence across the USPTO AWS environment
• Participate as final escalation point with Program Manager to ensure that response SLA's are met
• Collaborate with client stakeholders and customers to define technical requirements and objectives
• Bring USPTO systems to the next level, helping adopt AI practices, lead the design of system improvements and help oversee client deliverables
• Lead a team of DevOps Engineers, ensuring innovative and secure cloud strategies
• Build a culture of continuous improvements, proactively identify areas of improvement from customer requests, and maintain and prioritize a backlog of improvements
• Partner with senior leadership, enterprise architecture teams, and agency personnel to build cloud adoption strategies

Minimum Requirements

• U.S. Citizen/Green Card Holder eligible for Public Trust clearance
• 10+ years of IT/digital transformation experience
• 5+ years of deep hands-on AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP cloud architectures and implementations
• Strong communication and collaboration ability
• Expertise leading multi-tenant cloud systems (e.g., landing zones, multi-account systems)
• Team management, leading and developing team members
• Focus on proactively identifying and driving improvement in cloud infrastructure
• Experience developing and managing high-availability, secure, and automated solutions aligned with best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps methodologies and tools (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins, GitLab)
• Professional Cloud Certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Proven experience bridging on-premise systems with cloud environments

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $199,750 - $270,250, set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements.

Schedule

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Travel Required: Less than 10%
• Telecommuting Options: Remote

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan with both pre and post-tax contribution options up to IRS annual limits and company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance