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# DevOps/Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Owings, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, HAProxy, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Networking Basics, Nginx, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Shell Script, Systems Integration, Datadog, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Grafana, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing, Golang, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/7A40CC72AA7343B8B5C8FCEBF59DA0D8/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of relevant experience; 8 additional years of experience may be substituted for the degree. * Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider. * Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes (Amazon EKS or equivalent), including clusters that other teams deploy to. * Strong proficiency with Terraform (Terragrunt preferred). * Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms. * Strong Linux systems administration and shell scripting experience. * Working knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, and container networking. * Experience with Docker and container-based delivery. * U.S. citizenship; must be able to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust background investigation and agency-issued PIV credential. * Terragrunt in multi-account AWS environments. * Argo CD, GitOps workflows, or Argo Workflows. * HAProxy, OpenResty, NGINX

## Description

Our client is hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our program team supporting a federal agency client's large-scale digital services platform. You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and shared platform services that many engineering teams use to securely deliver public-facing digital services. You will be part of a platform engineering team focused on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud architecture, and federal compliance, and collaborates closely with software engineers, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), and security teams.

Platform Engineering * Design, build, and maintain the cloud infrastructure supporting a shared platform. * Develop reusable infrastructure modules, libraries, and automation used across multiple engineering teams. Infrastructure & Automation * Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt). * Build and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure and supporting platform services. CI/CD & Software Delivery * Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins, or similar technologies. * Support GitOps deployment patterns and continuous delivery best practices. Reliability & Operations * Participate in a business-hours support rotation and production on-call responsibilities. * Troubleshoot production infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, deployment failures, and cloud services., Envoy, or API gateway technologies. * Proficiency in Go, Python, Bash, or similar languages. * Building reusable GitHub Actions, composite actions, or self-hosted runners. * Integrating SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and compliance automation into CI/CD pipelines. * Supporting federal systems, including ATO processes, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, STIGs, or similar frameworks. * Observability platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.