Posted 6 weeks ago

DevOps Lead (FedRAMP)

Orca Security

Remote · United States 🇺🇸

Remote
Full Time
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Kubernetes

$230,000 - $260,000 year

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The DevOps Lead (FedRAMP) will own Orca’s FedRAMP environment. All of it. The infrastructure, the authorization, and the relationships with the agencies and assessors who depend on it
This is a builder’s role with real authority. You will be the most senior Orca engineer in our federal environment and the person everyone comes to for anything that touches it, from a Terraform change to an agency security review. You will set the technical direction, and you will implement it yourself. Over time you will grow a small US based team around you while keeping your own hands on the system
The timing is good. FedRAMP is moving to 20x, with machine readable OSCAL packages, Key Security Indicators, and continuous validation replacing point in time assessment. Most companies are treating that as a compliance problem. We want to treat it as an automation problem, and you will be the one who designs how Orca does it
Own and evolve Orca’s FedRAMP environment in AWS GovCloud, AWS East/West, Azure Government, Azure Commercial, and GCP, including EKS, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD, FIPS validated endpoints, hardened images, secrets management, and centralized logging
Write the infrastructure code yourself and set the standards for how it is written
Design the automation that makes compliance a byproduct of how the system runs, covering continuous configuration validation, drift detection, evidence collection, and inventory accuracy
Decide how new platform capabilities land in the federal environment, and bring them in cleanly
Own production health, monitoring, and incident response for the environment
Run continuous monitoring end to end, including scanning, POA&M, inventory, and reporting
Own the authorization artifacts, from the SSP and boundary diagrams through control implementation, and lead their move to OSCAL
Assess and categorize changes to the boundary, and own the notification process that goes with them
Lead annual assessment and 3PAO engagements, from scoping through evidence to closing findings
Be Orca’s interface to the FedRAMP PMO, our agency sponsor, and our assessors
Track where the program is heading and tell us what it means for us early
Be the technical voice of our federal environment in front of agency security teams, prime contractors, and prospects, across security reviews, architecture deep dives, and audit responses
Work directly with our federal sales, sales engineering, and customer success teams. You will be in the rooms where a credible technical answer wins the account
Translate between an agency ISSO and an R&D team in Tel Aviv, in both directions, so requirements arrive as something buildable
If you like being the definitive expert on a system that matters, and you want the ownership without giving up the engineering, this is a rare shape of role
Fluency in NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5. You can move between a control and its real technical implementation in either direction
Kubernetes in production. Operating it, debugging it, and upgrading it
The presence to hold a technical conversation with a federal customer’s security team and be the reason they trust the answer. Excellent written and spoken English
You are hands on today and you want to stay that way. You are writing infrastructure code and operating production systems now, and you would be doing roughly two thirds of that in this role alongside the ownership and customer work
5 or more years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, with genuine production ownership
Based in the United States, with access to the authorized environment subject to our federal personnel screening requirements
Automation in Python or an equivalent language, with an instinct to script what others do by hand
Real experience inside a FedRAMP authorized system. You can talk about an authorization boundary, a significant change, or what a 3PAO will ask for, from having done it
Vulnerability management experience in a regulated environment
Deep AWS experience, including hands on AWS GovCloud and a clear understanding of how it differs from commercial
Comfortable working with an Israel based R&D organization, with meaningful overlap with Israel hours
Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale, 3 or more years
Exposure to DoD IL4 or IL5, StateRAMP, CMMC, or IRAP
Experience with the FedRAMP 20x pathway, OSCAL tooling, or KSI based validation
Experience growing a small infrastructure team
Background at a security product company or with a cloud native security platform
Compliance automation tooling such as Xacta, Paramify, RegScale, or Vanta
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or equivalent hands on experience