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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps Engineering Manager (DevOps/DevSecOps/Site Reliability/Deployment Engineering) - **Company:** Legion Corporation - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $240,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Linux System Administration, Machine Learning, Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/devops-engineering-manager-dc-area-yurts-8012197 ## About the Role * 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, deployment engineering, or related disciplines. * 2+ years of experience leading technical teams. * Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments. * Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements. * Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production environments. * Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. * Experience operating customer-facing production systems. * Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience. * Experience managing operational incidents and production outages. * Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on. * Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders. Preferred * Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or data-intensive software platforms. * Experience delivering software to disconnected tactical edge environments. ## Description * Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers. * Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities. * Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus. * Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements. * Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery., * In addition to DevOps will lead the Deployment Engineering team's execution of customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support. * Oversee operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across Legion customer environments. * Coordinate cross-functional activities required to support deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations. * Serve as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues. * Drive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience. * Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders. * Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards that ensure deployed systems meet Legion's requirements for velocity, resiliency, and control., * Guide the development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures across Legion environments. * Partner with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are deployable, supportable, and maintainable. * Drive standardization and automation efforts that improve scalability and reduce operational burden. Platform & Infrastructure Engineering * Lead the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities. * Partner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to support product roadmap execution and operational requirements. Customer Engagement * Engage directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation activities. * Support mission-critical deployments and operational troubleshooting when required. * Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders. * Represent Legion during technical discussions involving deployment architecture, operational readiness, and platform sustainment., * The Deployment Engineering team is responsible for operationalizing Legion's software across customer environments ranging from enterprise cloud deployments to disconnected and air-gapped tactical systems. * The Deployment Engineering Manager leads this function, partnering closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure Legion systems remain operationally effective throughout their lifecycle. * The team's mission is to ensure Legion capabilities can be deployed, upgraded, sustained, and scaled reliably across cloud, on-premises, classified, air-gapped, and edge environments. Deployment Engineering serves as the bridge between product development and operational reality, translating platform capabilities into repeatable deployment patterns and operational processes in support of customer outcomes. * Success means delivering resilient customer deployments, maintaining operational readiness across the deployment fleet, accelerating upgrade velocity, reducing deployment and sustainment burden through automation, and enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that can be operated reliably in real-world environments. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Introduction to Azure Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/368-introduction-to-azure-machine-learning) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [DevOps for AI: running LLMs in production with Kubernetes and KubeFlow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1222-devops-for-ai-running-llms-in-production-with-kubernetes-and-kubeflow) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 196: AI Killed DevOps, LLM Political Bias & AI Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/659-dev-digest-196-ai-killed-devops-llm-political-bias-ai-security) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers)