ECS is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA (hybrid) office.
We are looking for a talented Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer who is passionate about building, automating, and operating modern cloud environments. Strong candidates will have deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code, with a desire to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of technical environments.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, automating, and operating cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. The ideal candidate will be comfortable writing code and automation, troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and partnering directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
- Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, and configuration deployments.
- Develop automation, tooling, scripts, and integrations using languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native container platforms.
- Design and implement cloud architectures using services across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, scaling, and operational workflows.
- Support the development and operation of microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-native platforms.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and performance-management capabilities across applications and infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving Linux systems, networking, containers, cloud services, application deployments, and automation pipelines.
- Improve system reliability, availability, resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering.
- Implement and maintain secure configuration, identity and access controls, secrets management, certificates, and cloud security best practices.
- Partner with software engineers to improve development workflows, deployment processes, and application operability.
- Partner with security engineers to integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
- Identify repetitive operational processes and replace them with scalable automation.
- Evaluate new cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and automation technologies and determine where they can improve the environment.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while remaining actively involved in implementation and troubleshooting.
Salary Range: $140,000-$200,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or another technical discipline, or an associate degree with equivalent years of relevant technical experience.
- At least 8 years of overall technical experience, including significant hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
- DevOps Engineering
- Cloud Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Unix/Linux Administration
- Infrastructure Automation
- CI/CD Engineering
- Networking and Virtual Infrastructure
- Containerization and Kubernetes
- Application Deployment and Operations
- Software Development or Scripting
- Strong scripting or development experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, or similar.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code.
- Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and deployment issues.
- Ability to work directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into reliable and maintainable engineering solutions.
Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation and obtain the required Government Security Clearance.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or another technical discipline; alternatively, an associate degree with equivalent relevant technical experience.
- At least 8 years of overall technical experience, including significant hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, Linux administration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, networking, containers, application operations, or software development.
- Strong scripting or development experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, or similar.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and deployment issues.
- Ability to work directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into reliable engineering solutions.
- Successfully complete a stringent background investigation and obtain the required government security clearance.
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
