Senior Manager, Federal Platform Operations IL5/IL6, Classified Deployments
Keeper Security, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own end-to-end operational delivery for Keeper’s U.S. Federal deployments, including planning, execution, cutover, sustainment, and continuous improvement across controlled environments (IL5, IL6, and classified networks)
- Serve as a hands-on technical lead for federal platform operations, driving deployment readiness, release processes, troubleshooting, and operational best practices in restricted environments
- Lead cross-functional execution to align Engineering, Security, Product, QA, and Customer Success to federal operational and compliance requirements
- Establish and maintain deployment standards, release gates, configuration baselines, and rollback procedures for federal environments
- Ensure products are fully tested, validated, and operationally ready prior to deployment into controlled government systems
- Own configuration management, patching cadence, change control, and sustainment processes for federal environments
- Lead authorization and compliance efforts supporting federal frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, RMF/NIST 800-53, DoD Cloud Computing SRG; ICD 503 as applicable)
- Oversee creation and maintenance of security artifacts, operational documentation, and continuous monitoring evidence required for authorization and ongoing operations
- Own operational risk management across federal deployments, ensuring alignment with government security directives, policies, and operational controls
- Coordinate with government security officers, approval authorities, system integrators/primes, and mission partners to support secure deployments and ongoing operations
- Drive operational metrics and reporting for reliability, readiness, incident trends, deployment performance, and compliance posture
- Lead critical customer-impacting investigations and incident response for federal environments, including postmortems and corrective action plans
- Provide player/coach leadership for a small team and/or matrixed contributors, focusing on execution and delivery outcomes
- Travel up to 25% of the time and attend Keeper-related events (locally and nationally)
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technical operations, platform operations, DevOps/SRE, federal delivery, or government cybersecurity environments, including ownership of production delivery outcomes
- Experience deploying and sustaining secure software or enterprise systems in government enclaves, including IL5/IL6 and classified environments
- Strong familiarity with federal compliance and authorization frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, RMF/NIST 800-53, DoD Cloud Computing SRG; ICD 503 as applicable)
- Strong technical understanding of secure deployment practices, release management, configuration management, incident response, and operational controls in restricted environments
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and run complex delivery programs end-to-end (planning, execution, risk management, reporting)
- Experience working with government employees, integrators, primes, or contractors supporting high-security programs
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret (TS) clearance; SCI is not required for this role
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Keeper is FedRAMP authorized; therefore all applicants must be a U.S. Person.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
- Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental life
- Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401K (Roth/Traditional)
- A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc)
- Above market annual bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical operationsplatform operationsDevOpsSREfederal deliverygovernment cybersecuritysecure deployment practicesrelease managementconfiguration managementincident response
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcross-functional collaborationrisk managementproblem-solvingexecution focusdelivery outcomesalignment driving
Certifications
Top Secret clearance