Head of Secure Cloud Ops, Release & Support

VisibleThread, LLC; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Equity award

Hybrid working: Remote with overlap

Healthcare, Dental & 401k

Chance to work with an exceptionally-t

Fast paced, innovative environment

Job summary

VisibleThread, LLC in the Virginia/Washington DC metro area seeks a senior leader to own DevOps, security and production operations across cloud, AWS GovCloud and on-premise deployments.

You will report to the CEO, sit on the Senior Leadership Team and guide DevOps and Support teams, ensuring FedRAMP/NIST compliance, cost efficiency, and reliable customer experiences.

The role emphasizes collaboration with remote teams, customer-facing advocacy, and leveraging AI to automate operations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.
• 5+ years leading technical teams across operations and support.
• FedRAMP/NIST GovCloud compliance ownership experience.
• Production workloads on AWS: availability, cost, observability.
• CI/CD and secure SDLC, SBOM and scanning.
• Experience supporting on-premise deployments and Java/Spring.
• Customer-facing leader with remote teams.
• Experience using AI to automate operations.
• US citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Own release from engineering into production for cloud and customer-hosted deployments.
• Run cloud operations: availability, observability, incident response and cost.
• Lead secure SDLC and vulnerability management, plus CI/CD and developer tooling.
• Lead Support and be the final escalation point for customer issues, including on-premise and restricted environments.
• Build and develop the DevOps and Support teams, and be our technical adviser to strategic customers.

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

SRE

Cloud AWS

Security & Compliance

Customer facing

Tools

SBOM tooling

Static scanning

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

VisibleThread, LLC in the Virginia/Washington DC metro area seeks a senior leader to own DevOps, security and production operations across cloud, AWS GovCloud and on-premise deployments.

You will report to the CEO, sit on the Senior Leadership Team and guide DevOps and Support teams, ensuring FedRAMP/NIST compliance, cost efficiency, and reliable customer experiences.

The role emphasizes collaboration with remote teams, customer-facing advocacy, and leveraging AI to automate operations.