Maintenance Technical Director

Who we are...

Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.

About the Role

Latitude IT Solutions is seeking a Maintenance Technical Director to own the technical health and lifecycle management of a VA health IT platform built on AWS GovCloud, hosting a large portfolio of production services across Kubernetes environments. You own all planned maintenance, patch management, software lifecycle tracking, and the Platform Dependency List.

What You'll Do

• Own and maintain the Platform Dependency List — a living inventory of all platform services, versions, EOL timelines, and integration dependencies
• Direct all platform maintenance windows and change requests through ServiceNow CCB
• Lead patch prioritization across AWS managed services (RDS, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, MSK) and EC2-based services (MongoDB, Vault, Consul, Atlassian, Nexus)
• Track and remediate software components approaching EOL or carrying critical CVEs; coordinate POA&M entries with the RMF/Security Manager
• Author and maintain the Maintenance Plan deliverable within the required post-award window
• Enforce maintenance SLA windows ensuring maintenance activity does not impact business-hour availability
• Partner with the Senior Architect on architecture change reviews

What You Bring

• 8+ years of federal IT infrastructure or platform engineering
• Deep hands-on AWS experience: EKS, RDS, MSK/Kafka, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, EFS, S3
• EC2-based enterprise middleware experience: MongoDB, HashiCorp Vault & Consul, Atlassian, Nexus
• Kubernetes lifecycle management: node upgrades, namespace governance, cluster version management
• Federal IT change management experience (ServiceNow CCB or equivalent)
• Active Dept of Veteran Affairs PIV credentials

Preferred

• Direct VA OIT / VAEC experience
• AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Istio lifecycle management experience

Clearance...

• Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information

Citizenship...

• Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
  
  

Employee Benefits...

• Medical, Vision, Dental
• Paid Vacation & Sick Time
• Paid Federal Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Continued Education Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Health Savings Account (HSA)