Sprezzatura is a mission-driven, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in secure, scalable, and human-centered digital solutions. They are seeking an Engineering Lead to support the VA.gov Platform Management team in delivering secure and reliable platform capabilities for Veteran-facing digital services, providing technical leadership across various engineering and operational initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead engineering activities supporting VA.gov platform management initiatives and operational priorities
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize platform capabilities supporting software development and delivery
- Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, application operations, integrations, and deployment pipelines
- Support platform scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and operational performance initiatives
- Administer and manage configurations across development, testing, staging, and production environments
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and operational issue resolution activities
- Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform stability and compliance
- Drive engineering best practices, automation efforts, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Partner with Product Leads, engineering teams, and government stakeholders to align technical execution with delivery priorities
- Communicate technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and operational impacts across varying stakeholder audiences
- Support Agile delivery activities including sprint planning, backlog refinement, technical estimation, and release coordination
- Prepare technical documentation, system reports, operational metrics, and platform status updates
- Participate in transition planning, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness activities
- Coordinate across cross-functional teams to manage external dependencies and platform integration efforts
Requirements:
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or related engineering/technical discipline required
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant engineering, platform operations, infrastructure, or software delivery experience
- Additional relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of education requirements
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining platforms supporting software development and operational delivery
- Experience managing application configurations and supporting multiple operational environments
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software delivery methodologies
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or federal IT environments
- Experience with Agile delivery methodologies and cross-functional engineering collaboration
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience supporting VA.gov or other federal digital services platforms
- Familiarity with SRE practices, observability tools, monitoring platforms, and operational support models
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, containerization, or infrastructure automation
- Experience supporting organizational transitions, onboarding activities, or knowledge transfer initiatives
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, GitHub, ServiceNow, or similar engineering collaboration tools