Top Senior IT Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

Administers and optimizes enterprise endpoint computing, virtual desktop, identity management, clinical workspace, and Windows Server environments. Provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 support across more than 5,000 users and endpoints, managing Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix, Okta, Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Imprivata, and IGEL. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, patching, access management, infrastructure maintenance, documentation, ITIL service operations, disaster recovery participation, process improvement, mentoring, and occasional on-call support.

Design and lead development of instructor-led, virtual, and hybrid software training. Collaborate with SMEs and agencies to create ADDIE-based curricula, ensure Section 508 compliance, produce webinars, web-based training, user guides and online help, and evaluate training effectiveness for USPS implementations.

Lead a 5–8 person Data Science team to develop and operationalize FWA detection models using SAS and Python on multi‑payer healthcare claims. Oversee model development, data pipelines, quality reviews, stakeholder presentations, and collaboration with SMEs and BI developers. Split role ~40% management, 60% hands-on coding/analysis.

Senior hands-on identity engineer responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise Identity Provider (IdP) services and ADFS infrastructure for millions of users. Duties include configuring federation trusts, implementing SAML/OAuth/OIDC/WS-Fed, PKI/smart card/MFA integrations, onboarding applications, developing claims and token policies, ensuring high availability and zero trust alignment, troubleshooting complex authentication issues, and producing technical documentation while collaborating with cybersecurity, AD, cloud, and application teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics-ready data models using Python and SQL. Implement GitLab CI/CD, develop dashboards in Tableau/Power BI, perform data cleaning and analysis, support modeling and AI initiatives, document metadata, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable insights.

Supports back-office operations for an ICAM program, coordinating PMO documentation, deliverables, procurements, assets, onboarding, reporting, compliance tracking, and communications. Maintains agendas, action items, trackers, logs, status reports, and program artifacts while improving workflows and documentation standards. Serves as a coordination hub across program management, finance, engineering, contracts, and compliance. The role is fully remote and requires an active Secret clearance.

Optimize enterprise cloud data platform performance across databases, warehouses, lakes, queries, pipelines, and workloads. Monitor system health, establish performance baselines and SLAs, troubleshoot bottlenecks, plan capacity, reduce cloud costs, and support high availability and disaster recovery. Implement DevSecOps, GitOps, CI/CD security tooling, secrets management, automated monitoring, SBOM generation, and full-stack health checks. Collaborate with platform, database, architecture, engineering, and governance teams while delivering operational performance reports.

Administer, optimize, secure, and automate cloud SQL, NoSQL, and graph database environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, backups, disaster recovery, replication, migrations, access controls, monitoring, cost optimization, compliance, documentation, and incident troubleshooting. The role integrates databases with data platforms, pipelines, applications, and analytics tools while collaborating with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams. Candidates support AWS and Snowflake environments, modernization initiatives, audits, and Public Trust requirements.

Lead the elicitation, documentation, and governance of business and data requirements for cloud-based data products. Drive source-to-target mappings, collaborate with engineers and architects, support testing and UAT, produce Agile artifacts, contribute to metadata ingestion, and ensure audit-ready, compliant reporting and analytics for the CMM program.

Build and operate secure cloud DevSecOps platforms for a federal modernization program. Responsibilities include automating CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning, integrating security scanning and compliance controls, managing cloud security architecture, IAM, encryption, secrets, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, incident response, artifact repositories, and policy-as-code guardrails. The role also requires documentation, training, metrics reporting, and collaboration across development, operations, governance, and security teams.

Leads functional and automated testing for complex modern, cloud-based applications. Develops test strategies, plans, cases, and automation for unit, API, integration, UI, performance, security, and regression testing. Validates Kafka-based workflows, microservices, serverless systems, data pipelines, and CI/CD releases. Partners with engineering and DevSecOps teams on defect prevention, security, observability, environment readiness, root-cause analysis, and operational quality. Maintains audit-ready documentation and communicates risks and recommendations to stakeholders.

Design, modify, and program software for local, networked, cloud, or internet applications. Write code, test and debug, document installation and maintenance procedures, gather user requirements, implement enhancements, and perform related duties.

Plans and delivers complex software implementation projects, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, vendors, risks, quality, and stakeholder communications. Leads cross-functional project teams, reports to executive leadership, improves project management processes using AI, and mentors junior project managers. The role requires strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, adaptability, attention to detail, and knowledge of Agile and hybrid methodologies.

Lead the corporate IT organization, including helpdesk and IT engineering, while aligning technology with strategic business goals. Define the IT vision, roadmap, metrics, budget, and resource allocation; drive AI automation, operational excellence, employee engagement, and continuous improvement. Partner with senior leaders and teams including HR Tech, Security, PMO, and Helpdesk to prioritize initiatives and deliver scalable solutions. Manage hybrid and international teams while developing talent and maintaining IT as a service-oriented strategic partner.

Designs, deploys, and maintains enterprise cloud and on-premises network security (NGFW, SASE/SSE, visibility, micro-segmentation). Executes migrations, policy cleanup, automation, monitoring, documentation, and escalations. Collaborates across teams, coaches junior staff, and supports hardware/software acquisitions to sustain managed security services.

Leads the surveying, design, installation, and implementation of telecommunications rooms and infrastructure at Eielson Air Force Base. Develops rack, cabling, grounding, electrical, cooling, and equipment layouts; manages government, contractor, and subcontractor installation teams; coordinates facility upgrades and network, fiber, ISP, and OSP integration; ensures compliance with DoD, UFC, TIA/EIA, and I3A standards; and supports design reviews and customer briefings.

Supports back-office PMO operations for an ICAM program by maintaining documentation, deliverables, trackers, meeting artifacts, onboarding and offboarding activities, status reports, training compliance, and communication materials. Coordinates across program management, finance, contracts, engineering, and compliance to resolve workflow issues and ensure accurate, timely execution. Improves program workflows, templates, and documentation standards while supporting special projects.

Design, configure, and extend the ServiceNow platform including Service Portal, Catalog, ACLs, Flow Designer, integrations, Document Intelligence, and workplace modules. Develop client/server scripts, widgets, and automation; support upgrades, ATF, instance cloning, and platform governance. Collaborate in Agile with stakeholders, mentor junior staff, estimate work, and drive solution design and process improvements.

Develop and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js, React.js, and AWS. Design scalable architectures, implement infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CDK, build CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux environments, and support secure cloud operations. Collaborate with UI/UX designers, cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps teams while working in an Agile environment. The role requires obtaining Public Trust, passing a background check, and completing onsite fingerprinting.

Coordinate the CMM Data Modernization and Governance Program across workstreams, technical teams, stakeholders, and government organizations. Maintain schedules, sprint boards, deliverable trackers, risks, dependencies, documentation, training records, and compliance activities. Support status reporting, meetings, technical reviews, audits, budget tracking, resource updates, change requests, executive communications, and customer training while ensuring deliverables meet contractual and quality requirements.

Lead Agile delivery for a data modernization and governance program. Coach Scrum teams and Product Owners, facilitate ceremonies, manage JIRA boards, coordinate dependencies, mitigate risks, maintain RAID logs, and provide transparent reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership. Support SAFe implementation, backlog prioritization, release planning, continuous improvement, and delivery of data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud capabilities.

Deploys and optimizes enterprise infrastructure across on-premises systems, networks, AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365. Engineers Terraform automation, Intune endpoint management, AI initiatives, SaaS integrations, SSO, and IT service workflows. Designs and maintains cybersecurity architecture, Zero Trust controls, security baselines, monitoring, and compliance controls aligned with CIS, NIST, and SOC 2. Provides advanced troubleshooting, technical support, VoIP administration, vendor coordination, and root-cause remediation.

Leads and supports internal IT operations for a globally distributed workforce. Manages a small IT team, oversees infrastructure and systems, improves identity, device, and SaaS tooling, partners across departments on onboarding and security, supports SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance, and establishes scalable processes, SLAs, ticketing workflows, and documentation. This is a hands-on player-coach role focused on reliability, security, efficiency, and employee experience.

Provide technical leadership for the reliability, monitoring, security, performance, and continuous improvement of cloud data platforms, pipelines, applications, and analytics services. Responsibilities include incident management, disaster recovery, identity and secrets management, DevSecOps and CI/CD integration, automated health monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, cost optimization, compliance, and root-cause analysis across enterprise AWS environments.

Manage and deliver federal EHR task orders under an IDIQ contract: plan, supervise teams, control cost/schedule/scope, coordinate SMEs and stakeholders, review deliverables, and ensure contract compliance while obtaining Public Trust Level 5.