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Sr Production Engineer- Public Sector

Databricks· Engineering
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Virginia$135.5k - $186.4kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Production Engineer focused on secure, compliant cloud operations across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) for highly regulated, air-gapped and sovereign environments. Owns and evolves the sovereign layer of infrastructure, IAM, access patterns, guardrails, and security data pipelines in production.

Responsibilities

  • Design, automate, and operate the IAM, account/subscription, and project lifecycle across AWS, Azure, and GCP, enforcing least-privilege and standardized access patterns at scale.
  • Review, implement, and continuously improve cloud identity and access policies (IAM, Okta, Opal) to align with security standards and audit requirements.
  • Build and maintain reliable, observable automation and tooling to apply cloud changes (roles, policies, accounts, networking) safely and repeatedly.
  • Treat operational and security issues as software problems: eliminate toil, drive root-cause analysis, and codify fixes into infrastructure and tooling.
  • Own and improve security and audit logging data pipelines from cloud providers into internal systems for detection, investigations, and audits.
  • Partner with Security, Compliance, and Audit teams to provide evidence, clarifications, and policy updates.
  • Operate and improve specialized, highly regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP / GovCloud) including release management, patching cadences, and secure access workflows (SAW).
  • Ensure high availability and resiliency for critical security and access infrastructure across these environments.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for high-severity incidents impacting cloud accounts, IAM, or security data pipelines.
  • Act as a key partner to product engineering, security engineering, and field teams during incidents to restore service and harden systems for the future.

Qualifications

  • TS/SCI security clearance (active)
  • Polygraph (Counterintelligence or Full Scope) highly desired
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years in production engineering, SRE, security engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
  • Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in IAM, networking, accounts/subscriptions/projects, and audit logging
  • Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and CI/CD for infrastructure changes
  • Experience in security-sensitive or regulated environments (SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, financial services, public sector) and translating requirements into controls
  • Familiarity with access review processes, policy baselines, and audit evidence for cloud environments
  • Operational excellence in running high-availability, security-critical services, on-call duties, and incident management
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems, capable of navigating cross-team issues

Skills

Required:Top Secret / SCI clearanceCloud IAMNetworkingInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD for infraSecurity & Compliance
Nice to have:Polygraph

Benefits

  • Benefits information available via region-specific link in the job description.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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