Senior DevOps Prime: Platform & Cloud Steward

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 165,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

GCH Technologies is seeking an experienced DevOps Prime to own and oversee the DevOps function across our platform portfolio. This senior individual‑contributor role will lead the health, reliability, and security of our cloud infrastructure, coordinating with Intive and CyberCommand for contracted DevOps resources.

You will set technical direction, ensure vendor standards, and drive cost efficiency. The role reports to executive leadership with visibility to external partners such as CTIA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience directing external contractors and vendors.
• Hands-on AWS including IAM, VPC, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch.
• Experience with IdP integrations using SAML and OIDC.
• Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform (CloudFormation or Pulumi acceptable).
• Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Experience with observability, incident response, and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical direction to DevOps resources at external partners, ensuring alignment with architecture and security standards.
• Define scopes of work, deliverables, and acceptance criteria for vendor-led initiatives.
• Review vendor outputs (Terraform, pipelines, runbooks) for quality and adherence to conventions before production.
• Track contractor utilization and surfaced gaps to engineering leadership.
• Own the AWS footprint across SCR, UBID, and RBM including API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, QuickSight; manage IaC standards.
• Drive cost visibility and optimization with regular reporting to engineering leadership.
• Own cloud security posture with IAM, network controls, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
• Own Auth0 tenant configuration and IdP integrations across platforms.
• Manage IdP onboarding workflows with Product and Customer Success, reducing integration time.
• Maintain documentation, templates, and standards for IdP onboarding.
• Own end-to-end CI/CD strategy across product lines; establish deployment standards and change management.
• Drive deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate improvements.
• Define observability stack and SLOs; lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Coordinate with Engineering, QA, Product, and Customer Success to support release velocity and reliability.
• Support executive communications related to platform infrastructure and SLA performance.
• Plan long-range expansion toward an in-house DevOps team.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Vendor management

AWS experience

IdP integrations

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudWatch

API Gateway

RDS

Lambda

Auth0

Job description

GCH Technologies is seeking an experienced DevOps Prime to own and oversee the DevOps function across our platform portfolio. This senior individual‑contributor role will lead the health, reliability, and security of our cloud infrastructure, coordinating with Intive and CyberCommand for contracted DevOps resources.

You will set technical direction, ensure vendor standards, and drive cost efficiency. The role reports to executive leadership with visibility to external partners such as CTIA.