GPS - Azure Senior Platform Engineer - Assistant Director
About the role
The Assistant Director supports large, complex government cloud programs within Azure Government environments. They are accountable for the successful delivery of platform and infrastructure capabilities at scale. The role involves owning technical direction, enabling delivery teams, and influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, and platform organizations.
Responsibilities
- Own the delivery of cloud platform and infrastructure capabilities across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with business, mission, and security requirements.
- Set and guide technical direction for Azure Government platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable.
- Establish and evolve DevSecOps practices and automation approaches to improve delivery consistency, quality, and reliability.
- Make informed technical and delivery trade-off decisions, balancing speed, quality, security, risk, and long-term platform health.
- Lead architecture and design efforts, reviewing and approving solutions to ensure alignment with standards, constraints, and desired outcomes.
- Oversee risk, dependency, and issue management across delivery efforts, escalating and resolving proactively as needed.
- Influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and leadership teams to align priorities and drive execution without direct authority.
- Develop and grow engineering talent through coaching, feedback, and delegation, strengthening overall team capability.
- Promote operational excellence by continuously improving processes, tooling, and ways of working.
Requirements
- Demonstrates accountability for outcomes, taking ownership of decisions and following through to execution.
- Applies sound judgment when operating in ambiguity, making trade-offs that consider delivery impact, risk, and long-term sustainability.
- Influences outcomes across teams and stakeholders through credibility, collaboration, and clear communication.
- Communicates complex technical and delivery topics effectively to technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Adapts approach as priorities, constraints, and requirements evolve while maintaining delivery momentum.
- Develops people and teams by providing clear direction, timely feedback, and opportunities for growth.
- Promotes a culture of quality, risk awareness, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates curiosity and continuous learning, staying current with evolving technologies, delivery practices, and firm direction.
Qualifications
- 7+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
- Strong hands-on experience: Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD, Containers and orchestration, Cloud security principles, Identity and access, Windows and Linux administration, Scripting / programming.
- Deeper hands-on experience with Git-based source control and branching strategies, AWS/GCP cloud experience / knowledge, Azure DevOps Pipelines and broader Azure platform services, Ansible and Bicep for advanced automation and configuration, Azure Policy and multi-tenant / multi-subscription design patterns, Advanced Azure networking experience, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation.
- Ability to obtain and maintain Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Skills and Attributes
- Accountability for outcomes, taking ownership of decisions and following through to execution.
- Sound judgment when operating in ambiguity, making trade-offs that consider delivery impact, risk, and long-term sustainability.
- Influence outcomes across teams and stakeholders through credibility, collaboration, and clear communication.
- Communicate complex technical and delivery topics effectively to technical, business, and executive audiences.
- Adapt approach as priorities, constraints, and requirements evolve while maintaining delivery momentum.
- Develop people and teams by providing clear direction, timely feedback, and opportunities for growth.
- Promote a culture of quality, risk awareness, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrate curiosity and continuous learning, staying current with evolving technologies, delivery practices, and firm direction.
Benefits
Comprehensive compensation and benefits package including medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
Pay
The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $111,100 to $207,800. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $133,300 to $236,100.
Schedule
Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
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