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Senior Manager, Cloud Platform and Security

Arlington, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-06 → 2026-10-07

Core

Build and lead the engineering organization responsible for deploying, securing, and accrediting software into customer environments (on-prem, private cloud, restricted networks) and managing site reliability at headquarters and customer sites.

Role type

Senior Manager, Cloud Platform and Security

Builds

Delivery path from developer laptop to running instance, production systems in customer environments, security engineering for products, and an accreditation program for government networks.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Government Contracting

Required skills

Engineering management (5+ years), building/rebuilding engineering functions, leading senior engineers across disciplines, infrastructure ownership (on-call, incident response, RCA), hiring across multiple roles, system thinking, stakeholder communication (via careerplan.io/jobs/421800e0-cb11-46e5-a266-3694aa8afce6-senior-manager-cloud-platform-and-security-at-twenty)

Preferred skills

Managing engineering managers, defense/intelligence/national security experience, accreditation/authorization processes (CMMC, SOC 2, NIST 800-53), leading forward-deployed teams, software delivery into disconnected networks, managed detection and response relationships

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Go, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Neo4j

Responsibilities

Decide organizational structure and team composition, hire and develop senior engineers and managers, own the delivery path including packaging and rollback in customer environments, take over and build resilient infrastructure teams, operate products in cloud and customer sites including incident response, lead security engineering (design review, vulnerability management), stand up and own an accreditation program, communicate progress and risks to senior leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities