Deputy Director, Platform Engineering

BAE Systems is a defense, aerospace, and security company that develops advanced technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber to support national security. The Deputy Director of Platform Engineering will provide technical, operational, and organizational leadership for the Virtual Cloud Computing Center (VC3), translating strategy into architectures, roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes. The role will lead the integration of engineering, operations, security, and platform product teams while ensuring a secure, reliable, scalable, product-oriented platform.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the principal deputy to the Director of Platform Engineering and represent the organization in technical, operational, investment, and governance forums
• Lead the integrated execution of Platform Engineering priorities across engineering, operations, and security disciplines
• Translate business and platform strategy into prioritized roadmaps, investment plans, organizational goals, and measurable outcomes
• Provide leadership and governance for the architecture, delivery, operation, security, resilience, and lifecycle management of VC3 products
• Advance VC3 as a product-oriented engineering platform by improving self-service, standardization, reliability, user experience, and adoption
• Lead the VC3 initiative portfolio, including priorities, resources, budgets, schedules, dependencies, risks, and expected business value
• Build strong partnerships with engineering programs, business areas, SecureIT, facilities, finance, supply chain, and enterprise technology organizations
• Lead, develop, and retain engineering managers, technical leaders, architects, and individual contributors while promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence

Requirements:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering discipline and 10 or more years of progressive experience. Equivalent education and experience may be considered
• Significant leadership experience in Platform Engineering, cloud, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, or large-scale technology operations
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed technical teams
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable plans, investments, organizational priorities, and measurable results
• Experience managing complex technical initiatives involving cost, schedule, resources, risk, and organizational dependencies
• Strong executive communication, decision-making, organizational, and talent-development skills
• Active or higher-level security clearance
• Master's degree in a relevant technical, engineering, or business discipline
• Prior experience as a senior technical leader, chief engineer, platform leader, infrastructure leader, or deputy director
• Experience operating platforms within classified, controlled, CUI, or other highly regulated environments
• Experience with technologies such as VMware, Azure Stack, OpenStack, AWS, Kubernetes, Rancher, GitLab, Azure DevOps, MinIO, Ceph, Morpheus, Splunk, Grafana, Terraform, or Ansible
• Relevant technical certifications in cloud, Kubernetes, cybersecurity, SRE, networking, virtualization, or enterprise architecture