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Director, Cloud Practice

Tria Federal (Tria)
Arlington, KSA
Full Time
Director
3 weeks ago
AWSKubernetesCloud ArchitectureInfrastructure as CodeAI/MLZero Trust Architecture
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Job Description

  • The Director, Cloud Practice is a senior leadership role within our Cloud Center of Excellence, responsible for shaping and scaling our cloud capabilities in support of federal agency clients.
  • This individual serves as the technical and strategic anchor for cloud, driving mission aligned delivery, building a high performing engineering team, and positioning the company as a trusted, innovative partner across the federal landscape.

Key Responsibilities Business Development & Practice Growth

  • Serve as a key technical contributor to federal proposals, sources sought, and competitive responses, articulating cloud architecture approaches, relevant past performance, and solution differentiators
  • Lead and participate in technical demonstrations, proof of concepts, and capability showcases for federal clients and prospects
  • Develop authoritative content, white papers, capability statements, and reference architectures, that establish the practice's credibility in the federal cloud market
  • Cultivate and manage relationships with AWS and strategic technology partners, aligning partner capabilities to federal mission requirements and contract vehicles
  • Define certification and skills roadmaps that strengthen the practice's ability to compete on technically complex federal opportunities
  • Identify and pursue innovation initiatives that align cloud native capabilities with emerging federal priorities such as zero trust, cloud migration mandates, and AI modernization

Key Responsibilities Federal Program Delivery

  • Provide cloud architecture leadership and hands on technical oversight across active federal programs, ensuring quality delivery, compliance adherence, and SLA performance
  • Drive the adoption of modern, AI assisted engineering practices within delivery teams to accelerate outcomes and improve quality
  • Partner with Program Managers and Delivery Leadership to ensure cloud resources are aligned to program needs, staffing is proactively managed, and client expectations are consistently met
  • Build and maintain reusable delivery accelerators, infrastructure as code templates, and reference architectures tailored to federal compliance environments
  • Lead client facing technical communication and cloud adoption enablement for federal agency stakeholders, translating complex cloud concepts into mission relevant terms
  • Develop and deliver internal training programs that grow the cloud delivery capacity of the broader team and reduce dependency on specialized resources

Key Responsibilities People & Team Leadership

  • Recruit, develop, and retain a high performing team of cloud engineers and architects aligned to federal mission work
  • Foster a team culture grounded in accountability, continuous learning, and mission focus, consistent with the values and expectations of federal clients
  • Conduct regular one on one coaching and career development conversations, connecting individual growth to practice and company goals
  • Champion AI fluency across the team, helping engineers understand and apply AI assisted tools in their day to day federal delivery work
  • Guide team members in pursuing relevant certifications and professional development that keep the practice technically current and competitively positioned

Key Responsibilities Thought Leadership & External Presence

  • Maintain and articulate a clear, informed perspective on what constitutes modern, proactive practice that can accelerate innovation and velocity.
  • Represent the company at federal cybersecurity conferences, industry forums, and community events through speaking engagements, panels, and expert roundtables
  • Publish authoritative content, white papers, technical blog posts, and practitioner perspectives, that reflect the company's cloud expertise and point of view within the federal market
  • Build a credible, visible personal brand on professional platforms that positions both the individual and the company as trusted voices in Cloud infrastructure and operations

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform leadership roles
  • 5+ years in a senior technical leadership capacity, practice lead, principal architect, or equivalent
  • Deep, hands on expertise with AWS across core use cases, including compute, networking, storage, AI/ML, identity and access management, and managed services
  • Hands on Kubernetes experience in production environments, including cluster operations, workload orchestration, Helm chart management, and cloud native patterns, EKS experience strongly preferred
  • Direct experience working on or supporting federal government programs, understanding of federal procurement, program delivery structures
  • Proven ability to contribute to federal proposals and business development efforts, including RFI/RFP responses and oral presentations
  • Excellent communication skills, fluent across technical teams, program leadership, and federal agency stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent demonstrated Kubernetes expertise
  • Hands on experience in FedRAMP, FISMA, or DoD IL compliant cloud environments
  • Familiarity with federal cloud modernization initiatives like Zero Trust Architecture
  • Experience with AI/ML workloads on AWS federal infrastructure
  • Prior experience in a federal IT services or systems integrator environment
  • Visible presence in the federal cloud community, publications, conference participation, or professional community engagement

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