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Future Need - Actively Interviewing

Location: Remote in any United States jurisdiction not excluded from this job advertisement.

Drive the technical excellence of a 24/7 Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform serving millions of Veterans. As the Maintenance Technical Director, you support architecture, engineering, and maintenance activities supporting mission-critical applications for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

Position Description: The Maintenance Technical Director supports the architecture, engineering, and maintenance of a healthcare platform while overseeing AWS cluster management, code governance, configuration management, certificate management, change control, and delivery of major technical artifacts.

Minimum/General Experience: 10 years of experience in cloud platform engineering and technical leadership

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering or related field

Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Expert experience providing technical leadership for complex enterprise cloud platforms and mission-critical systems in an Agile SAFe environment
• Expert experience in system sustainment, platform engineering, and operational reliability practices
• Expert experience with AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) cluster management, node operations, Amazon Machine Images (AMI) governance, and Kubernetes platform engineering
• Expert knowledge of AWS managed services (e.g., EKS, Relational Database Services/RDS, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Kinesis, MSK, Athena)
• Expert ability to lead platform architecture design including high-level design (HLD) and low-level design (LLD) documentation, multi-region strategies, and system dependency mapping
• Excellent experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Excellent experience enforcing 100% IaC provisioning and automated drift detection
• Excellent knowledge of EC2-based services (e.g., Consul, Vault, MongoDB, Atlassian, Active Directory, Nexus, Postfix)
• Excellent understanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) operations, TLS certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management using Vault and AWS Secrets Manager
• Above average experience with Change Control Board (CCB) facilitation, ServiceNow integration, and production change governance
• Knowledge of VA Technical Reference Model (TRM) compliance and VA Enterprise Architecture standards
• Knowledge of PI-level planning for platform engineering teams
• Experience supporting Federal Government programs and large-scale enterprise applications operating in cloud-based or hybrid environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

General Physical Requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job may vary based on the location of the assignment.

• Assignment Location - Remote
• Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Typing, communicating, repetitive motions.
• Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data, view computer monitors and read. May need to view presentation screens and other visual aids in a virtual setting.
• Inside environmental conditions with protection from outside elements.

Security: Active Federal Civilian Public Trust clearance

• U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident that has lived in the United States for at least 3 years

Federal Civilian Public Trust Consists of a review of up to but not limited to:

• Covers 10 year period and in some instances lifetime events
• OPM Security Investigations Index (SII)
• DOD Defense Central Investigations Index (DCII)
• National Agency Check (NAC) records
• FBI name check
• FBI fingerprint check
• Credit report check
• Written inquiries to previous employers and references listed on the application for employment
• Potential interviews with the subject, spouse, neighbors, supervisor, coworkers
• Law enforcement check
• Court records check
• Education check - Attendance and Degrees

Tasks/Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Maintains regular communication with the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and Government technical leadership
• Provides senior technical oversight for all architecture, engineering, and maintenance activities ensuring 99.995% incident-free availability for mission-critical applications
• Delivers and maintains the Architecture Package (HLD/LLD), architecture, engineering, and maintenance assessment, and maintenance plan within contractual timelines
• Leads the design and delivery of the Scheduling Event Bus to production, supporting enterprise scheduling across VistA and other healthcare applications
• Develops and implements the Multi-Region Enablement Plan including failover strategies, Recovery Time Objective (RTO)/Recovery Point Objective (RPO) definitions, and cost modeling for VA AWS GovCloud US-West and US-East environments
• Enforces 100% IaC provisioning via Terraform and ensures configuration drift detection runs at least weekly and is remediated within 3 business days
• Oversees certificate lifecycle management ensuring 100% of TLS certificates are renewed 30+ days prior to expiration using automated mechanisms
• Facilitates daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings and ensures 100% of production changes are executed within Government-approved change windows with documented backout plans
• Delivers Monthly Maintenance Reports tracking all performance standards
• Identifies and escalates any objectives not meeting expectations
• Ensures all platform software operates on VA TRM-approved versions with no End-of-Life/End-of-Support (EOS) software in production

Compensation & Benefits: The annual projected pay range for this position is $113,585 - $150,164 with consideration being given to various factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, job responsibilities, and geographic location.

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. offers a full array of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage for you and your family.
• Life Insurance, short-term disability and long-term disability paid for by the Company.
• Supplemental coverages including Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital.
• Additional Life insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• 401k plan with various options to select based on your retirement goals.