Top Remote DevOps Jobs in Washington, DC

Develop and ship native iOS software for Ford’s customer-facing mobile app, serving millions of drivers worldwide. Responsibilities include contributing to product architecture and design reviews, evaluating technologies, writing documentation, collaborating with product and design teams, and delivering production-grade software using agile and CI/CD practices. The role emphasizes Swift, SwiftUI, mobile architecture, testing, observability, debugging, and operational support.

Leads enterprise software architecture and development across multiple product lines, establishes design standards, reviews solutions, troubleshoots complex issues, and provides technical guidance across teams. Supports modernization of on-premise systems and migration to Azure cloud. Partners with engineering and executive leaders on technology strategy, security adaptability, automation, and solution design using agile methods.

Leads technical direction for GitLab’s Core DevOps services, covering CI, CD, planning, and source control. Defines architecture, quality metrics, migration strategies, and technical roadmaps; addresses systemic risk and complex design decisions; prototypes and writes code when needed; partners with Infrastructure, Security, SRE, and Product; adopts AI capabilities; mentors senior engineers; supports incident response and senior technical hiring.

Leads architecture, modernization, optimization, and reliability initiatives for mainframe CICS, MQ, and z/OS Connect environments. Provides technical direction across development and operations teams, establishes governance and change processes, tunes performance using telemetry, resolves incidents, and develops modernization roadmaps. Collaborates with stakeholders and enterprise architects to deliver secure, scalable, high-availability solutions while evaluating automation, cloud integration, and AI technologies.

Lead and mentor a software engineering squad while remaining hands-on with code reviews, design discussions, and occasional development. Own the software development lifecycle, drive sprint execution, remove blockers, ensure secure and high-quality delivery, and partner with product and engineering leadership. Support open-source contributors, communicate progress and risks, and guide engineers’ technical and professional growth.

Leads enterprise ServiceNow platform strategy, governance, engineering delivery, modernization, AI adoption, operational excellence, and technology investments. Manages ServiceNow engineers, platform roadmaps, upgrades, integrations, vendor relationships, licensing, data quality, security, compliance, performance, and executive stakeholder engagement. Builds team capability through recruiting, coaching, succession planning, and resource management while ensuring reliable delivery across ITSM, ITOM, ITAM, CMDB, workflow automation, and related platform capabilities.

Lead enterprise architecture strategy and design for scalable, secure, high-performing technology solutions. Define architecture roadmaps, integration patterns, data flows, cloud strategies, and governance standards. Provide technical leadership to engineering teams, guide modernization and DevOps initiatives, manage risks, and ensure compliance. Collaborate with business stakeholders, project teams, and partners to translate strategic objectives into technology solutions, resolve complex implementation challenges, and support successful delivery across distributed teams.

Designs, implements, and supports scalable AWS cloud architectures for government and CACI customers. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, network design, security controls, AWS application migration and modernization, troubleshooting, stakeholder training, documentation, and reporting. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, compliant cloud solutions and requires local commuting access to Washington Navy Yard or Norfolk Naval Shipyard, with occasional customer-site or office work.

Lead DevOps and SRE initiatives focused on Azure SQL Elastic Pools, cloud infrastructure reliability, observability, automation, high availability, disaster recovery, and incident response. Manage scalable Azure or AWS environments, build infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines, optimize performance and costs, develop monitoring and remediation solutions, and mentor junior engineers while partnering across development, security, and database teams.

Design, operate, and scale SailPoint’s AWS-based Kubernetes infrastructure and service mesh for a global, mission-critical SaaS platform. Responsibilities include cluster architecture, networking, security, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, capacity planning, incident response, compliance, and platform standards. The role influences engineering teams globally, participates in 24x7 on-call support, leads service mesh strategy, and improves reliability, performance, deployment efficiency, and operational practices.

Designs and leads scalable contact center architectures using Zendesk, Amazon Connect, and AWS. Defines modernization strategies, oversees integrations, governance, security, and compliance, and mentors presales specialists. Supports discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proofs of concept, presentations, and technical documentation. Collaborates with business leaders, IT teams, vendors, and partners while driving innovation in omnichannel, AI-enabled customer service technologies.

Lead and architect scalable web systems, mentor frontend and backend developers, define coding standards and roadmaps, drive implementations using React/Next/Node/NestJS, produce technical documentation, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with product and DevOps to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.

Operate and improve reliable Azure Government platforms supporting AI applications, OIGChat, and enterprise data systems. Responsibilities include monitoring, observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, performance and cost optimization, capacity planning, disaster recovery, high availability, deployment readiness, and operational documentation. The role also supports Azure Databricks, data pipelines, AI model endpoints, secure government cloud environments, and mission-critical federal operations.

Build, optimize, and expand Infisical’s open source security infrastructure platform. Develop product features, work directly with enterprise customers, expand PKI, PAM, and KMS offerings, and explore AI applications in secrets management and security infrastructure. The role requires deep JavaScript ecosystem expertise, particularly React.js, Node.js, and TypeScript, with Go, DevOps, developer tools, and open source experience beneficial.

Lead software engineering for the Navy’s MFOM system, including research, design, development, integration, testing, maintenance, architecture, code review, and defect resolution. Decompose complex requirements, guide secure DevOps/DevSecOps practices, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-functional teams, support Kubernetes-based delivery, and troubleshoot distributed applications. The position requires an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and substantial software engineering experience.

Build and evolve scalable, secure full-stack platform capabilities for College Board’s assessment systems. Responsibilities include designing and implementing software, translating product needs into technical work, participating in Agile ceremonies, conducting code and design reviews, supporting production issue resolution, improving CI/CD workflows, and collaborating with product, architecture, data, and engineering partners. The role also involves mentoring teammates, influencing technical direction, and maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and maintainability.

Provides Level 3 technical support and systems administration for Microsoft environments. Manages identity, security, endpoint enrollment, patching, upgrades, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure migrations. Troubleshoots complex issues, performs root cause analysis, documents solutions, supports automation and DevOps adoption, and collaborates with service teams and clients. The role also helps identify service opportunities and may lead managed services projects or teams.

Leads technical delivery architecture for complex mainframe modernization projects. Designs and implements Rocket Software solutions, manages technical project scope, develops proofs of concept, guides modernization and migration efforts, leads technical teams, communicates risks and requirements, estimates changes, conducts code reviews, and advises customers. The role also supports presentations, training, defect resolution, automation pipelines, DevOps practices, and modernization of COBOL applications and mainframe data.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Designs and governs secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures across public and hybrid environments. Establishes cloud networking, security, observability, infrastructure automation, disaster recovery, and business continuity standards. Partners with Engineering, Security, Compliance, and business teams on cloud-native designs, migrations, incident response, and root-cause remediation. Evaluates cloud technologies, maintains architecture documentation, guides implementation, and mentors engineers while ensuring infrastructure aligns with business and regulatory requirements.

Administer and optimize mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server environments across on-premises and Azure platforms. Develop and tune complex T-SQL, manage large databases, implement Always On high availability and disaster recovery, oversee backups, security, auditing, monitoring, and data migrations, and automate administration with PowerShell and SQL Agent. Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, support releases, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code automation. Partners with application engineering, quality, security, and compliance teams to deliver reliable platform solutions. Owns platform stability, observability, incident response, security best practices, and zero-downtime deployments. Participates in on-call rotations, uses metrics for decision-making, and supports application architecture decisions while continuously improving DevOps processes and automation.

Leads the architecture and development of scalable, fault-tolerant platform services using Kubernetes, DevOps automation, and distributed systems. Responsibilities include designing multi-tenant shared services, optimizing cloud and on-prem infrastructure, ensuring availability and cost efficiency, troubleshooting complex issues, reviewing code, documenting architecture, collaborating across teams, and mentoring engineers.

Leads software design, architecture, development, testing, deployments, production support, and technical debt reduction for WEX Health applications. Mentors engineers, coordinates cross-functional delivery, reviews code, and guides feature lifecycles. Uses AI-assisted development practices, including GitHub SpecKit, model selection, MCP integration, prompt engineering, automated testing, refactoring, and governance of AI-generated code. Requires strong C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, communication, and leadership skills.