Platform Operations Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Senior Platform Operations Lead to drive the operation and evolution of a secure, scalable cloud data platform hosted in AWS GovCloud. You will translate customer IT needs into a concrete plan, lead incident management, and ensure compliance for government financial systems across distributed environments.

The role requires hands-on Databricks and cloud ops expertise, CI/CD for infra and applications, and a track record of delivering reliable, secure platforms at

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading teams in platform and cloud operations.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Experience deploying Databricks on restricted or secure cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for infra and apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform operations, incident management, and high-availability engineering for government-facing financial platforms.
• Guide implementation of resilient cloud architectures and automation strategies to meet strict security and compliance requirements.

Skills

Platform operations leadership

Cloud operations

Site reliability engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

AWS GovCloud

IAM

Networking

Monitoring

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Platform Operations Lead**The Opportunity:**At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Platform operations require a unique blend of cloud engineering expertise, operational rigor, and leadership. As a Senior Platform Operations Lead, you understand how to build resilient systems, ensure operational excellence, and maintain secure, compliant environments at scale. We’re looking for someone like you to ensure the reliability and performance of critical financial platforms hosted in AWS GovCloud. As a Platform Operations Lead at Booz Allen, you will guide the operation and evolution of a secure, scalable cloud data platform and translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan. You’ll bring deep cloud operations experience and hands‐on Databricks and AWS GovCloud expertise to support and modernize essential government financial systems in an enterprise data platform. You will lead the implementation of resilient cloud architectures, lifecycle management, automation strategies, and proactive monitoring to meet the stringent performance, compliance, and security requirements of public sector financial operations. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way our clients use technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. As a technical leader, you’ll shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth.Join us. The world can’t wait. **You Have:*** 10+ years of experience leading teams performing platform operations, cloud operations, site reliability engineering, and infrastructure engineering* Experience operating and supporting data platforms in AWS GovCloud, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and security services* Experience in managing cloud infrastructure using infrastructure‐as‐code tools and designing, deploying, and operating Databricks on restricted, regulated, or secure cloud environments* Experience supporting production workloads for distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containerized environments, including Docker or Kubernetes, and Kafka* Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments* Experience in automation for operational tasks, patching, configuration management, and environment provisioning* Knowledge of cloud security best practices, logging, monitoring, incident response, and compliance frameworks required in government environments* Ability to lead incident management, root‐cause analysis, operational readiness reviews, and high‐availability engineering* Public Trust* Bachelor's degree **Nice If You Have:*** Experience supporting or modernizing government financial systems* Experience operating within multi‐cloud or hybrid‐cloud environments* Experience with event streaming platforms such as Kafka, Confluent, Redpanda, or AWS MKS* Experience with SRE‐aligned principles such as reliability engineering, fault injection, and Chaos Engineering* AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, DevOps Engineer – Professional, or equivalent certification* Databricks Data Engineering – Associate or Professional or equivalent certification**Vetting:**Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.**Compensation**At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.