12 hours ago
Richmond, VA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead large cross-team platform programs from design through delivery, including multi-region Amazon EKS, AWS GovCloud expansion, and infrastructure-as-code framework re-architecture.
- Own architecture decisions across compute, network topology, identity, account structure, and delivery, and document tradeoffs and rejected alternatives.
- Design enterprise infrastructure-as-code frameworks, multi-region CI/CD with approval gates, automated rollback, and policy enforcement.
- Architect developer guardrails, disaster recovery, capacity, resilience, and compliance controls for FedRAMP and GovCloud environments.
- Validate resilience through sustained-load testing, failure injection, chaos testing, infrastructure-as-code testing, policy testing, and failure testing in CI.
- Partner with product, data, and AI/ML teams to design platform infrastructure for their systems.
- Own on-call escalation paths, lead complex incidents, and improve incident response across platform-supported teams.
- Communicate plans, risks, tradeoffs, and dependencies to engineering, security, compliance, federal program, and business stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach engineers, delegate meaningful work, establish platform standards, and help raise the hiring bar.
- Guide adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools with validation standards appropriate for federal compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience as the technical lead for large, cross-team infrastructure or platform programs with many stakeholders.
- Advanced, production-proven experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, and CI/CD.
- Strong architecture judgment across complex projects, including the ability to explain tradeoffs and rejected alternatives.
- Experience reducing complexity in systems or processes with measurable outcomes.
- Experience translating FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2 requirements into automated, enforceable controls with continuous evidence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including design proposals, decision records, and incident reviews.
- Experience growing engineers through mentoring, coaching, and delegation.
- Strong Python or Go skills for platform tooling and automation.
- Typically 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as a technical lead on cross-team programs; demonstrated scope and judgment may be considered instead of tenure.
- U.S. citizenship is required for access to Exiger’s FedRAMP federal environments where legally required.
- Experience leading or contributing to FedRAMP authorization, continuous monitoring, or SOC 2 Type II audits is preferred.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, CKA/CKS, HashiCorp Terraform certification, internal developer platforms, Backstage, service mesh, container supply chain security, HashiCorp Vault, chaos engineering, FinOps, or infrastructure for data and AI/ML workloads is preferred.
Benefits
- Discretionary time off with no maximum limits.
- Health, vision, and dental benefits.
- Competitive compensation package.
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- Flexible hybrid work from home and in the office where applicable.
- Wellness stipends and dedicated wellness programming.
- Career development programs with reimbursement for educational certifications.
- Work location is hybrid in McLean, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; or New York City.
About Exiger
Exiger builds AI- and data-driven software for supply chain, third‑party risk, and compliance management, used by corporations, banks, and government agencies. Its 1Exiger platform provides supplier visibility, risk detection, and due diligence, delivered as SaaS with supporting analytics and advisory services. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Exiger is FedRAMP authorized for U.S. public‑sector use and is majority‑owned by The Carlyle Group.