Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure

Position Overview

SteerBridge Strategies is seeking a Deputy Chief Technology Officer (DCTO), Infrastructure to own the cloud architecture, security compliance, corporate network, and IT foundation that underpin SteerBridge’s federal technology portfolio.

This role sits at the center of the company’s technical operations, providing the secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure that SteerBridge’s mission programs, including VA disability claims modernization, aviation readiness analytics, and federal fintech platforms, are built on, as well as the internal IT and security posture of the company itself.

The role also spans DoD-facing infrastructure, including cloud environments hosted at DoD Impact Levels (IL4/IL5) and infrastructure governance for AI/ML workloads, including LLM/NLP integrations and edge device deployments, supporting SteerBridge’s programs across both VA and DoD mission environments.

The Deputy CTO, Infrastructure reports to the CTO and works alongside the other Deputy CTOs and Architecture Review Boards to ensure every program inherits a consistent, defensible security and cloud foundation. This person will represent SteerBridge to government security authorizing officials and internal leadership alike, translating infrastructure and compliance decisions into business and mission risk terms.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design, governance, and continuous improvement of SteerBridge’s cloud architecture across program and corporate environments, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and DoD-hosted IL4/IL5 environments, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.

• Establish infrastructure governance standards for AI/ML workloads, including LLM/NLP integrations and Medallion Architecture data pipelines, ensuring secure and compliant infrastructure across programs.
• Own infrastructure security and compliance, including RMF/ATO packages, continuous monitoring, risk management, and remediation of findings across program and corporate systems.
• Lead corporate network and IT architecture and operations, including connectivity, segmentation, identity and access management, endpoint protection, and secure edge-device provisioning and management across distributed and DDIL environments.
• Provide technical leadership to government authorizing officials, auditors, and executive stakeholders, translating complex infrastructure, security, and technology decisions into mission and business risks and recommendations.
• Lead architecture and technical risk governance, including Architecture Review Boards and the Technical Risk Committee, to ensure infrastructure, security, AI/ML, and LLM-related decisions are consistent, aligned, and auditable across programs.
• Mentor infrastructure, network, and security engineers and support career development, technical growth, and organizational engineering standards.

Manage infrastructure and security strategy and delivery across programs, including vendor and tooling evaluations, requirements prioritization, sprint and release planning, and communication of progress, risks, dependencies, and cost considerations to leadership.

Required Qualifications