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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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About the Role
Tria Federal is seeking a Director, Cloud Practice to lead and scale cloud capabilities for federal agency clients. This senior leadership role involves driving mission-aligned delivery, building a high-performing engineering team, and positioning the company as a trusted partner in the federal landscape.
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AWSKubernetesCloud ArchitectureInfrastructure as CodeAI/MLZero Trust Architecture
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key technical contributor to federal proposals, sources sought, and competitive responses
- Lead and participate in technical demonstrations, proof of concepts, and capability showcases
- Develop authoritative content, white papers, capability statements, and reference architectures
- Cultivate and manage relationships with AWS and strategic technology partners
- Define certification and skills roadmaps
- Identify and pursue innovation initiatives aligning cloud native capabilities with federal priorities
- Provide cloud architecture leadership and hands on technical oversight across active federal programs
- Drive adoption of modern, AI assisted engineering practices
- Partner with Program Managers and Delivery Leadership to ensure cloud resources alignment
- Build and maintain reusable delivery accelerators, infrastructure as code templates, and reference architectures
- Lead client facing technical communication and cloud adoption enablement
- Develop and deliver internal training programs
Requirements
- 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
- Hands on Kubernetes experience in production environments
- Direct experience working on or supporting federal government programs
- Proven ability to contribute to federal proposals and business development efforts
- Excellent communication skills
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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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