FedRAMP DevOps Lead — Government Cloud Owner

Builtbyindies Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Hybrid/Remote flexibility

Mac or Windows laptop

WFH stipend

Cell phone & home internet stipend

Global team collaboration

Job summary

Orca Security seeks an experienced DevOps Lead (FedRAMP) to own the FedRAMP environment across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and GCP. You will manage infrastructure, authorization, and agency relationships, writing infrastructure code and setting standards.

This builder role offers real authority and a path to grow a small US-based team while staying hands-on. You will design automation so compliance becomes a byproduct of operations and guide OSCAL migration over time.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps experience with production ownership.
• Real FedRAMP authorization experience and boundary conversations.
• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure with production ownership.
• Deep AWS experience including GovCloud; Kubernetes in production.
• Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale, 3+ years.
• Automation in Python or equivalent language; scripting of manual tasks.
• Fluency in NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 and ability to map controls to implementation.
• Ability to communicate with federal security teams and sponsors in English.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Orca's FedRAMP environment in multiple clouds and regions.
• Write infrastructure code and set coding standards.
• Design automation to make compliance a byproduct of operations.
• Decide how new platform capabilities land in the federal environment.
• Own production health, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead authority on FedRAMP program including annual assessments and 3PAO engagements.
• Interface with agency security teams, prime contractors, and prospects.

Skills

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

NIST 800-53 Rev 5

FedRAMP

3PAO

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or CE

Tools

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

Kubernetes

OSCAL tooling

Job description

Orca Security seeks an experienced DevOps Lead (FedRAMP) to own the FedRAMP environment across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and GCP. You will manage infrastructure, authorization, and agency relationships, writing infrastructure code and setting standards.

This builder role offers real authority and a path to grow a small US-based team while staying hands-on. You will design automation so compliance becomes a byproduct of operations and guide OSCAL migration over time.