Governance Lead – Infrastructure Automation

Location: Remote

• Establish and maintain the governance framework, technical standards, and reference architectures governing infrastructure automation across the platform.
• Develop reference architectures and reusable patterns for infrastructure provisioning across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Define and publish automation development standards, including coding practices, naming conventions, repository structures, documentation requirements, and code-review guidelines.
• Establish a comprehensive governance taxonomy covering automation standards, policy-as-code, state management, drift management, security controls, exception handling, and change management.
• Develop standards for policy-as-code enforcement and pre-execution policy validation using platform-native or comparable policy engines.
• Develop and maintain policies aligned with applicable federal security requirements, NIST guidance, FISMA, FedRAMP controls, and customer requirements.
• Define standards for infrastructure state management, desired-state tracking, drift detection, reporting thresholds, and automated remediation.
• Establish requirements for protecting authoritative state and configuration data, including locking, encryption, access controls, and immutable audit trails.
• Facilitate governance reviews and work across engineering, security, operations, and customer teams to drive adoption of established standards.
• Develop governance metrics, dashboards, exception-management processes, and reporting for program and senior leadership.
• Maintain technical governance documentation and update standards as program requirements, technology, and lessons learned evolve.

• Experience establishing or leading technical governance frameworks for infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, DevOps, or Infrastructure as Code environments.
• Strong understanding of automation governance, including policy enforcement, technical standards, exception management, change controls, metrics, and reporting.
• Experience developing or governing reference architectures, engineering standards, automation patterns, or platform standards used across multiple teams.
• Experience working in federal or similarly regulated environments, with knowledge of NIST guidance, FISMA, FedRAMP, and federal IT/security requirements.
• Ability to translate security, compliance, and operational requirements into practical technical standards that engineering teams can implement.
• Experience facilitating governance or technical review boards and communicating technical standards, risks, exceptions, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong written communication and technical documentation skills.
• ITIL v4 Foundation or higher, or ability to obtain the certification before starting.
• Relevant experience may come from platform engineering, DevSecOps, cloud governance, infrastructure architecture, developer/platform enablement, technical evangelism, security engineering, or IT governance. We’re particularly interested in candidates who can bridge the gap between governance requirements and the engineers responsible for implementing them.

• CISSP, CISM, or comparable information security certification.
• Hands-on familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Experience with policy-as-code, automated compliance validation, or cloud governance tooling.
• Experience with hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud infrastructure environments.
• Experience driving adoption of technical standards across multiple engineering or delivery teams.

• Be a U.S. citizen based on applicable customer, contract, and/or system-access requirements.
• Be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust/Suitability determination.
• Hold ITIL v4 Foundation or higher, or be able to obtain it before the start date.
• Reside in the United States and be able to work remotely, with occasional travel to the customer site as required.