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Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure at SteerBridge | LAYIQ

Cloud Architecture Leadership: Direct the design, governance, and continuous improvement of SteerBridge’s cloud architecture across all program environments, including governance of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models and DoD-hosted environments (IL4/IL5), ensuring consistent standards for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
AI/ML Infrastructure Governance: Establish infrastructure governance standards for AI/ML workloads across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models, including LLM/NLP integrations, ensuring secure, compliant infrastructure underpins Medallion Architecture (bronze/silver/gold) data pipelines across programs.
Security Compliance & Risk Management: Own the security compliance posture of SteerBridge’s infrastructure, including RMF/ATO packages, continuous monitoring, and remediation of findings across all programs and corporate systems.
Corporate Network & IT Operations: Lead corporate network architecture and operations, including connectivity, segmentation, identity and access management, and endpoint protection for SteerBridge’s internal IT environment.
Edge Device Management: Own the strategy for edge device provisioning, security patching, and update management across distributed and DoD field environments, including update mechanisms resilient to disconnected, denied, intermittent, or limited-bandwidth (DDIL) conditions.
Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a credible representative of SteerBridge’s technical posture to government authorizing officials, auditors, and executive leadership, translating infrastructure and security decisions into mission and business risk terms.
Governance & Standards: Chair or participate in Architecture Review Boards and the Technical Risk Committee, including AI/ML and LLM-specific risk review, ensuring infrastructure and security decisions across AICES, AIRES, SteerFi, and corporate IT remain aligned and auditable.
Program & People Leadership: Guide and mentor infrastructure, network, and security engineers; build career pathing and technical growth plans in partnership with SteerBridge’s Career Ladder framework.
Vendor & Tooling Strategy: Evaluate and manage the vendor and tooling landscape for cloud, network, security, and AI/ML infrastructure operations, ensuring cost-effective and compliant solutions across the company.
Cross-Program Coordination: Collaborate with program technical leads to identify, capture, and prioritize infrastructure and security requirements ahead of delivery milestones.
Delivery Management: Coordinate planning, sprint execution, and release management for infrastructure and security initiatives, and report progress, risks, and dependencies to executive leadership.
Required Qualifications
Eligibility requirements: U.S. citizenship is required for this position under applicable federal contract requirements. Candidate must also be able to obtain and maintain the security clearance required for the role.
12+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud architecture, or security engineering, including at least 5 years supporting federal or highly regulated environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (required). Advanced degree preferred.
Proven ability to design and lead delivery of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) supporting FedRAMP, RMF, and ATO requirements, including experience with DoD-specific hosting requirements such as the DoD Cloud Computing SRG, DISA STIGs, and IL4/IL5 accreditation boundaries.
Experience governing AI/ML infrastructure across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models, including infrastructure supporting Medallion Architecture (bronze/silver/gold) data platforms.
Deep understanding of enterprise network architecture, corporate IT operations, identity and access management, and endpoint security.
Strong command of NIST 800-53 controls, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and the federal Authority to Operate lifecycle.
Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional infrastructure, network, and security teams across multiple concurrent programs.
Exceptional communication, documentation, and executive stakeholder engagement skills.

Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure

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