Senior DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and operate secure, highly

available cloud infrastructure supporting government and regulated workloads. You will own the

CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, harden Kubernetes platforms, and serve as the technical authority

for cloud reliability and deployment automation across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate production workloads on AWS, including AWS GovCloud

(US) environments with their associated compliance and access constraints.

• Build and manage Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon EKS - cluster provisioning,

scaling, networking, RBAC, and upgrades.

• Own GitOps-based continuous delivery using ArgoCD, including application sync

strategies, rollout/rollback, and drift detection.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab (runners, pipeline-as-code, artifact and

container registry management, security scanning gates).

• Implement Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and Terraform for repeatable,

auditable provisioning across environments.

• Establish observability, alerting, and incident response practices to meet uptime and

reliability targets.

• Embed security and compliance controls into the delivery pipeline (secrets management

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 10+ years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Deep, hands-on AWS expertise, with direct experience operating in AWS GovCloud (US).
• Production experience running Kubernetes and/or EKS at scale.
• Proven GitOps delivery with ArgoCD.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline ownership in GitLab.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and Terraform) and scripting

(Bash, Python or similar).

• Must be a U.S. Person.
• Able to work from McLean, VA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, ITAR, CMMC)

and regulated cloud environments.

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional).
• Background supporting government or public-sector clients.