Cloud Platform and SRE Supv

Title: Cloud Platform and SRE Supv DSP01741

State Role Title: Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: $85,183 to $160,765 Negotiable and Commensurate with Experience.

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Department of State Police

Location: North Chesterfield, Virginia

Agency Website: vsp.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

About the Position:

The Virginia State Police (VSP) is seeking to hire a Cloud Platform and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Supervisor in our Information Technology (IT) Division at our Administrative Headquarters in North Chesterfield, Virginia. The job duties for this position include but are not limited to:

• Providing advanced technical leadership and operational oversight for VSP enterprise cloud environment.
• Exercising oversight of cloud platform engineering and SRE functions that support the Agency’s accelerated cloud transformation and modernization efforts.
• Implementing enterprise cloud infrastructure standards.
• Ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of mission‑critical systems.
• Supervising a team of cloud engineers who support ongoing operations, migrations, and modernization activities.

About the Agency:

At the Virginia State Police, we are more than just a law enforcement organization — we’re a united team of problem‑solvers, protectors, and public servants shaping the future of the Commonwealth. Every role here strengthens our mission to preserve life, protect the vulnerable, and enhance safety while upholding civil liberties throughout Virginia.

When you join VSP, your skills create real impact across every community we serve. Our culture is built on being selfless, engaged, and aware, and we succeed through timely, purposeful action; clear communication; personal accountability; and continuous improvement — together.
We prioritize the readiness and well‑being of all our people, entrusting decision‑making to those closest to the challenge and supporting one another with kind, direct feedback that helps us grow. At VSP, you will find meaningful work, real opportunities for advancement, and a supportive culture grounded in service, purpose, and the belief that we are One Mission. One Team. One VSP.

If you’re ready to make a difference and be part of something larger than yourself, your next career starts here.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge of:

• Cloud networking fundamentals, hybrid connectivity, and security best practices
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), cloud infrastructure design principles, multi‑account environments, and cloud-native databases such as Aurora and PostgreSQL and migration strategies from Oracle.
• Container orchestration services, serverless compute, and modernization patterns.
• Disaster recovery, business continuity, and reliability engineering best practices.

Skill in:

• Designing CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery or Deployment) pipelines using reusable components with integrated reliability and security.
• Developing operational playbooks, DR/BCP (Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan) runbooks, and reliability frameworks.
• Collaborating across enterprise technical teams (Information Security Office (ISO), Project Management Office (PMO), AppDev, Architecture, Networking, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
• Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Implementing automation for deployment, monitoring, or operations.

Ability in/to:

• Design and implement cloud platform services in coordination with the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Lead modernization efforts using containers, serverless, and cloud-native data platforms.
• Decision making with responsibility for agency-wide cloud operations.
• Support cloud migration activities, reliability engineering, and operational readiness.
• Lead, supervise, and develop technical teams in a high‑pressure environment.
• Prioritize tasks, manage deadlines, and lead incident responses.
• Experience with cloud-native databases (Aurora, PostgreSQL) and migrating relational workloads.
• Experience developing DR/BCP strategies and reliability frameworks.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with automated reliability and security controls.
• Considerable experience in IT infrastructure and platform engineering, and hands‑on AWS architecture and implementation.
• Experience serving as a senior hands-on engineer within a team directly contributing to solution design, IaC development, and troubleshooting of complex cloud and hybrid systems.
• Experience conducting peer reviews of cloud design, code, and operational automation while authoring and committing code as part of regular workflows.
• Experience developing and maintaining reusable engineering artifacts (Terraform modules, CI/CD pipeline components, monitoring dashboards, SRE automation), and prototype and validate new services before guiding adoption across the team.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations and major incident response as a working engineer, providing advanced technical support when critical issues arise.
• Experience supervising and leading a team while remaining hands-on, prioritizing tasks, managing deadlines, mentoring engineers, and owning delivery and quality standards without stepping away from the code.
• Experience migrating VMware & Windows workloads to AWS.
• Hybrid networking experience (Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway).
• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure and platform engineering, with direct AWS.
• Graduation from high school or equivalent.

Additional Considerations

• AWS professional-level certifications (Architect, DevOps) or equivalent preferred.
• Experience with cloud security tools, identity platforms, and container security preferred.
• State government IT experience and familiarity with public-sector compliance preferred.
• Knowledge of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), or similar compliance frameworks preferred.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Elements of the selection process include the screening of application(s); the interviewing of qualified candidate(s), to include pre-employment testing, a presentation and/or a work sample, if applicable; salary negotiation(s) if applicable; a background investigation; and a medical evaluation if applicable. The anticipated duration of the pre-employment process is determined by the successful completion of the above items.

Applications, cover letters and/or resumes shall only be accepted on-line through the PageUp recruitment management system at https://jobs.virginia.gov and must be received by 11:55 P. M. on August 14, 2026. Please limit resumes to four pages and cover letters to one page. Any additional attachments received in excess of this will not be considered.
PageUp provides confirmation of receipt of your application, resume and/or cover letter submitted successfully. Please refer to your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position. For questions, please contact the Talent Acquisition & Employee Relations Section of the Human Resources Division at professionalemployment@vsp.virginia.gov.

It is the policy of the Department of State Police (the Department) that all aspects of human resource management be conducted without regard to race (or traits historically associated with race including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists); sex; color; national origin; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; age; veteran status; political affiliation; disability; genetic information; and pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.

This policy shall be adhered to in all aspects of Departmental employment practices. It does not permit the lowering of bona fide job requirements, performance criteria, or qualifications to give preference to any state employee or applicant for state employment based on the above prohibitions.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.