DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer builds and maintains the platform foundation the entire system runs on, owning the event backbone, CI/CD pipelines, and the government cloud environment (GovCloud/IL5). This role ensures the platform is reliable, scalable, secure, and deployable, enabling application, data, and scoring teams to deliver capabilities quickly and safely in a regulated environment.

What you will do

• Build and operate the event backbone (Kafka or equivalent), including topic design guidance, reliability patterns, throughput scaling, and operational monitoring.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support repeatable, secure builds and deployments across environments.

• Provision and manage the GovCloud/IL5 hosting environment, ensuring it meets program security and compliance expectations.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) for cloud resources, cluster provisioning, network/security configuration, and environment replication.

• Deploy and operate Kubernetes platforms for application and data services, including cluster configuration, upgrades, and workload reliability.

• Establish platform observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational readiness (runbooks, alerting, incident response support).

• Partner with security and architecture teams to implement platform security controls (least privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, patching cadence).

• Clearance: Must maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 to 8 years of experience; Master’s Degree and 3 to 6 years of experience

• 5+ years of DevOps / platform engineering experience delivering and operating systems in a government cloud environment.

• Strong experience with event streaming architecture and operations (Kafka or equivalent), including production support and performance tuning.

• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or Ansible) and disciplined configuration management.

• Hands-on experience in AWS GovCloud or Azure Government environments

• Strong Kubernetes experience (deployments, Helm or equivalent packaging, cluster operations, and troubleshooting workload).

• Experience working in compliance-driven environments (e.g., IL5, RMF-aligned controls) with a security-first operations mindset.

What we’d like you to have

Tools & Technical Environment (Preferred/Used)

• Kafka (or equivalent event streaming platform)

• Terraform / Ansible (IaC and configuration management)

• AWS GovCloud or Azure Government

• Kubernetes

Key Behavioral Competencies

• Operational ownership: builds platforms that are supportable, observable, and resilient.

• Automation mindset: eliminates manual steps via IaC and CI/CD discipline.

• Cross-team enablement: designs platforms that help developers move faster with guardrails.

• Calm problem-solving: strong troubleshooting skills under real-world constraints.

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