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Exiger is an AI-native platform for supply chain and procurement automation, serving 550+ global customers including 150 Fortune 500 companies and 80+ government and defense organizations. The company is FedRAMP authorized and a 2x Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Supplier Risk Management.
You will be the technical lead for Exiger's largest, most cross-cutting platform programs spanning multiple engineering teams with significant security, compliance, and reliability implications across commercial AWS and FedRAMP-authorized AWS GovCloud environments. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports; your impact comes through technical judgment, clear communication, and the trust of peer teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead large cross-team platform initiatives (multi-region EKS, GovCloud expansion, IaC framework re-architecture) from design through delivery
- Own architecture decisions across compute, networking, identity, account structure, and delivery; document tradeoffs clearly
- Reduce system complexity by consolidating patterns, retiring obsolete approaches, and enabling teams to do more with less
- Design enterprise IaC frameworks and multi-region CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, automated rollback, and policy enforcement
- Architect guardrails and developer tooling for safe FedRAMP and GovCloud operations
- Design and validate disaster recovery, capacity, and resilience strategies with explicit RTO/RPO targets using load testing, failure injection, and chaos testing
- Partner with product, data, and AI/ML teams to design platform infrastructure aligned with their operational needs
- Communicate plans, risks, and tradeoffs to engineers, security, compliance, federal program teams, and business stakeholders; surface risks early and manage dependencies
- Own on-call escalation, lead critical incidents, and drive incident response improvements across served teams
- Set platform best practices and quality standards (IaC testing, policy tests, failure testing in CI) that other teams adopt
- Guide adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools with clear validation standards respecting federal compliance
- Mentor and coach engineers across teams, delegate meaningful work, and raise hiring standards for platform roles
Requirements:
- Track record as technical lead on large, cross-team infrastructure or platform programs with many stakeholders
- Advanced, production-proven expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, and CI/CD, including architecture decisions with lasting impact
- Excellent judgment on multi-faceted architecture with documented reasoning and rejected alternatives
- Concrete examples of reducing system or process complexity with measurable outcomes
- Experience translating FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and SOC 2 requirements into automated, enforceable controls with continuous evidence
- Excellent written and verbal communication: design proposals, decision records, incident reviews; ability to explain tradeoffs to engineers, auditors, and business leaders
- Evidence of growing engineers through mentoring, coaching, and delegation
- Strong Python or Go skills for platform tooling and automation
- Typically 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as technical lead on cross-team programs (calibrated on demonstrated scope and judgment, not tenure)
- U.S. citizenship required for access to FedRAMP federal environments
Nice to have:
- Leadership or central role in FedRAMP authorization, continuous monitoring, or SOC 2 Type II audit
- AWS GovCloud experience including partition isolation and service parity constraints
- AWS Professional/Specialty, CKA/CKS, or HashiCorp Terraform certifications
- Internal developer platforms or portals (Backstage or equivalent)
- Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and container supply chain security
- HashiCorp Vault at scale
- Chaos engineering (AWS Fault Injection Service, Chaos Mesh, Litmus)
- FinOps and automated cost controls
- Infrastructure for data and AI/ML workloads (GPU scheduling on EKS, Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker)
