Engineering Manager, Federal Operations

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Federal Operations: Leading and maturing the platform for secure, reliable, and compliant government environment operations with an accent on service reliability, release safety, and continuous compliance. Focus on driving platform stabilization, owning safe delivery to the Gov environment, and improving cost, performance, and resiliency posture in GovCloud.

Location: Remote - USA (requires eligibility to access controlled technology under U.S. export control laws)

Salary: $187,900–$221,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to protecting your privacy.

What you will do

• Lead and grow Gov SRE to operate a secure, reliable, and scalable government environment.
• Enforce SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call, and change management processes aligned to internal risk thresholds.
• Drive platform stabilization: reduce toil, harden baselines, improve observability, and shrink MTTR through runbooks, automation, and quality guardrails.
• Own safe delivery to the Gov environment: plan and orchestrate releases, change reviews, and rollbacks.
• Build and prioritize an execution roadmap for Gov v2.0 launch to scale product enablement and reduce operational drag.
• Improve cost, performance, and resiliency posture in GovCloud through architecture reviews, reliability testing, and capacity planning.
• Report clear metrics, risks, and progress to stakeholders; proactively escalate blockers and propose mitigations.

Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE/Infrastructure/Platform Engineering operating customer-facing services at scale.
• Hands-on leadership in incident management, SLOs/SLIs, observability, and change/release management.
• 2+ years managing SRE/Infra/FedOps teams with on-call ownership.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Kubernetes/containers, Terraform or similar IaC, and modern CI/CD.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Security/Compliance, Product & Eng, and GTM.
• Track record of automation that reduces toil and improves reliability, auditability, and developer productivity.
• Experience operating in AWS GovCloud.
• Must be eligible to access controlled technology under U.S. export control laws.

Culture & Benefits

• Certain roles are eligible for a bonus, restricted stock units (RSUs), and benefits.
• Individual compensation packages are based on factors unique to each candidate, including skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Committed to protecting applicant privacy throughout the secure hiring practices.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer.