Assistant Director

Description:

The Assistant Director owns outcomes across multiple workstreams, translating business and mission needs into secure, scalable, and sustainable cloud platforms. The role operates at the intersection of strategy and execution, guiding technical direction, enabling delivery teams, and influencing stakeholders across product, engineering, and platform organizations. In addition to hands on technical leadership, the role is responsible for developing team capability, driving continuous improvement, and making informed trade offs to balance delivery, quality, risk, and long term platform health within government and security constrained environments

Your Key Responsibilities

Own the delivery of cloud platform and infrastructure capabilities across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with business, mission, and security requirements
Set and guide technical direction for Azure Government platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sustainable
Establish and evolve DevSecOps practices and automation approaches to improve delivery consistency, quality, and reliability
Make informed technical and delivery trade off decisions, balancing speed, quality, security, risk, and long term platform health
Lead architecture and design efforts, reviewing and approving solutions to ensure alignment with standards, constraints, and desired outcomes
Oversee risk, dependency, and issue management across delivery efforts, escalating and resolving proactively as needed
Influence stakeholders across product, engineering, and leadership teams to align priorities and drive execution without direct authority
Develop and grow engineering talent through coaching, feedback, and delegation, strengthening overall team capability
Promote operational excellence by continuously improving processes, tooling, and ways of working

Skills And Attributes For Success

Demonstrates accountability for outcomes, taking ownership of decisions and following through to execution
Applies sound judgment when operating in ambiguity, making trade offs that consider delivery impact, risk, and long term sustainability
Influences outcomes across teams and stakeholders through credibility, collaboration, and clear communication
Communicates complex technical and delivery topics effectively to technical, business, and executive audiences
Adapts approach as priorities, constraints, and requirements evolve while maintaining delivery momentum
Develops people and teams by providing clear direction, timely feedback, and opportunities for growth
Promotes a culture of quality, risk awareness, and continuous improvement
Demonstrates curiosity and continuous learning, staying current with evolving technologies, delivery practices, and firm direction

To qualify for the role, you must have

7+ years in engineering roles working with private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS, and/or SaaS
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
Strong hands-on experience:
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD – designing and delivering with tools such as Bicep, Azure DevOps, ARM templates, or Ansible
Containers and orchestration – experience building and running containerized workloads using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, or Helm for packaging and deploying services at scale
Networking fundamentals – strong foundation designing and troubleshooting VNets, subnets, network security groups (NSGs), routing (UDRs), and basic load-balancing scenarios, with enough depth to reason about hub-and-spoke or similar topologies and diagnose common connectivity issues
Cloud security principles – solid understanding of concepts such as shared responsibility, least privilege, identity-driven security, network segmentation, encryption, and logging/monitoring, and how to apply them for customers driven by regulatory compliance requirements, such as: NIST, FedRAMP
Identity and access – understanding of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Entra ID RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities for Azure resources
Windows and Linux administration – hands-on experience managing, troubleshooting, and hardening server workloads, including patching, performance tuning, and applying security baselines (e.g., DISA STIG or equivalent)
Scripting / programming – practical automation experience using PowerShell (Python or similar scripting languages is a plus but not required
Experience with government security frameworks (e.g., NIST controls)
Hands-on delivery in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or similar)
Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to work effectively on distributed teams
Ideally, you’ll also have

Ability to obtain and maintain Top-Secret Security Clearance 
Deeper hands-on experience with:
Git-based source control and branching strategies
AWS/GCP cloud experience / knowledge
Azure DevOps Pipelines and broader Azure platform services
Ansible and Bicep for advanced automation and configuration
Azure Policy and multi-tenant / multi-subscription design patterns
Advanced Azure networking experience – hands-on exposure to one or more of: VPN Gateway or ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall or other NVAs, Virtual WAN hubs, Application Gateway or similar L7 gateways, and more complex hybrid or multi-region network designs
Additional relevant certifications, such as:
AZ-400, AZ-500, AZ-700
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD / CKNS
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
What We Look For

A self-starter, independent-thinker, curious and creative person with ambition and passion
History of continuous learning and continuous progression