Program Engineer, Federal Platform & IT Services

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Program Engineer, Federal Platform & IT Services based in United States. This is a senior technical leadership opportunity focused on advancing federal cloud platforms, IT services, infrastructure, and compliance programs. You will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, security, compliance, product, and operations teams. The role combines hands-on technical depth with program leadership across highly regulated and security-sensitive environments. You will drive initiatives spanning AWS and GovCloud, infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, Zero Trust identity, and platform reliability. You will also help strengthen observability, operational readiness, security automation, and continuous compliance. As the federal platform organization grows, you will have the opportunity to shape team practices, mentor engineers, and influence technical strategy. This is an impactful role for an experienced engineering leader who thrives on solving complex problems and delivering mission-critical technology at scale. Lead end-to-end execution of complex federal platform, IT services, cloud infrastructure, automation, and security programs, managing timelines, risks, dependencies, milestones, and stakeholder expectations. Partner with Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations leadership to establish program strategies, technical priorities, delivery plans, and measurable success criteria. Oversee major AWS and federal cloud initiatives, with a focus on scalability, security, cost efficiency, resilience, and operational performance. Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud automation practices, including Terraform adoption, automated deployments, and reduced reliance on manual change management. Lead enterprise disaster recovery programs, including cross-region failover architecture, recovery time and recovery point objective validation, and recurring resilience testing. Drive Zero Trust identity initiatives, including privileged access management, SCIM expansion, and automated identity lifecycle management within federal environments. Support FedRAMP High hardening, STIG validation, continuous compliance monitoring, and alignment with DoD Impact Levels, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other applicable requirements. Collaborate with security and compliance leadership to maintain audit readiness and integrate security-by-design principles into platform and IT services programs. Improve deployment pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, release governance, observability, monitoring, incident response, and overall platform reliability. Define and monitor service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets in collaboration with engineering and security teams. Build, recruit, mentor, and develop a growing Federal Platform Operations engineering team while establishing scalable methodologies, tools, and operating practices. Serve as a technical liaison across teams, ensuring clear communication, effective dependency management, and alignment between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches depending on program requirements and operational context. Evaluate emerging technologies and use AI-enabled tools to improve technical research, documentation, program analysis, communication, and workflow efficiency. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in federal IT, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or comparable technical environments supporting government or regulated missions. 4+ years of experience leading technical programs, platform initiatives, or complex cross-functional engineering projects within SaaS, cloud-native, cybersecurity, or similarly technical environments. Demonstrated experience delivering against FedRAMP, DoD IL4/IL5, STIG, or DoD Cloud Computing SRG requirements. Strong AWS expertise,