Solutions Operations Lead

Job Family:

Systems Engineering

Travel Required:

None

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

We are seeking an experienced Solutions Operations Lead to oversee secure, scalable, and compliant cloud operations, deployment automation, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure reliability across mission-critical environments. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in AWS cloud operations, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, security, compliance, and platform governance, along with proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.

The Solutions Operations Lead will be responsible for driving operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments, standardizing deployment and release processes, strengthening security and compliance posture, and ensuring resilient, audit-ready platforms that support critical business and mission outcomes. This position requires close collaboration across engineering, security, networking, architecture, and program delivery teams to ensure stable, secure, and scalable operations in regulated environments.

 

What You Will Do: 

Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Management & Reliability

• Lead day-to-day cloud and platform operations across AWS and hybrid environments, ensuring availability, resiliency, performance, and mission continuity.
• Oversee the provisioning, deployment, hardening, patching, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure and application environments across development, test, pre-production, and production.
• Establish and enforce operational standards for environment readiness, configuration management, backup and recovery, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform reliability, operational efficiency, and service maturity through automation and standardization.

DevSecOps, Deployment Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of DevSecOps pipelines and deployment automation using tools such as AWS CDK/Terraform/CloudFormation, Git, Jenkins/GitLab, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Docker, and related technologies.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to standardize provisioning, improve repeatability, and reduce manual configuration drift across environments.
• Establish secure, scalable, and auditable CI/CD processes that support rapid delivery while maintaining strong quality controls and release discipline.
• Define and oversee deployment strategies, environment promotion processes, release readiness standards, and change control procedures.

Security, Compliance & Operational Governance

• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to implement secure operational practices aligned with NIST, CIS, FISMA, FedRAMP, and zero-trust
  principles.
• Ensure infrastructure, deployment workflows, and operational processes are audit-ready and support logging, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, access control, and evidence collection requirements.
• Lead remediation planning and operational risk reduction efforts to improve the organization’s security and compliance posture.
• Support ATO-aligned operational activities, control implementation, and readiness documentation, as applicable.

Leadership, Team Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead and mentor a team of DevSecOps, cloud, and platform engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Provide direction for operational priorities, issue resolution, automation efforts, and deployment support activities across the team.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, networking, application, and security stakeholders to align operations with delivery timelines and enterprise standards.
• Communicate operational status, technical risks, recommendations, and improvement opportunities clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Documentation, Process Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain high-quality operational documentation, including SOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, an