Top DevOps Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads the design, development, and operation of scalable backend systems using Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Defines architecture and technical standards, drives large-scale technical initiatives, ensures reliability and performance, partners cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role also involves building distributed microservices, managing cloud-native deployments, and delivering production systems end to end. Experience with video workflows, video analytics, or LLM-powered applications is preferred.

Lead strategy and execution to improve engineering effectiveness, efficiency, and delivery predictability. Build operating models, governance, metrics, and cadences; drive cross-functional initiatives (AI enablement, developer experience, technical governance); improve team effectiveness and organizational scaling.

Design, build, and operate cloud-native, enterprise-grade SaaS services on Azure. Lead architecture and design, develop APIs and UIs, apply AI-enabled engineering tools, ensure observability, support production incidents, and drive reliability, performance, and CI/CD improvements across teams.

Lead ServiceNow implementations for enterprise customers: design, develop, integrate, and maintain scalable ServiceNow solutions (ITOM, Discovery, Service Mapping, AIOps). Build custom scripts and integrations, troubleshoot, participate in SCRUM, and work directly with customers to deliver projects on time.

Administer and support enterprise platforms, applications, cloud environments, integrations, and infrastructure for a government customer. Develop scripts and automation, manage data imports and reporting, configure workflows and dashboards, troubleshoot system issues, monitor system health, and support upgrades. The role requires direct stakeholder engagement, systems integration experience, U.S. citizenship, and a Secret clearance or eligibility to obtain one.

Leads a team of test specialists and owns system, regression, performance, integration, acceptance, end-to-end, and automated testing programs. Develops test strategies, translates requirements into test objectives, builds UiPath automation, analyzes defects and test results, and provides recommendations to government stakeholders. Requires Agile experience, test leadership, 5+ years of software testing experience, relevant certification, and an IT-II Non-Critical Sensitive clearance.

Designs, implements, and manages secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and services. Automates deployments, monitors performance, optimizes cloud costs, supports CI/CD and DevOps practices, and collaborates with development, operations, and business teams. The role also requires cloud security and compliance oversight, infrastructure as code, containerization, orchestration, and evaluation of emerging cloud technologies.

Manage and optimize hybrid Azure, AWS, and on-premises infrastructure across its full lifecycle. Responsibilities include cloud administration, automation with PowerShell, Python, and Terraform, AIOps monitoring, Docker and Kubernetes management, identity and security enforcement, disaster recovery, VMware and Windows Server administration, and CI/CD enablement. The role also collaborates with data science teams on machine learning and intelligent-agent infrastructure optimization while mentoring junior staff.

Lead development, management, security, and orchestration of enterprise container platforms and cloud-native solutions. Automate builds, testing, monitoring, and releases across environments; troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines; improve DevOps and DevSecOps maturity; advise clients on secure container adoption; inform platform strategy and design; and mentor or supervise team members.

Leads DevSecOps strategy and implementation for tax innovation projects, managing Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security controls, vulnerability remediation, reliability, and performance optimization. Partners with cross-functional teams, manages client-facing initiatives, evaluates risk, drives innovation, and coaches high-performing teams. Uses Azure DevOps, GitHub, Python, PowerShell, DataDog, and Log Analytics to improve secure software delivery and operational excellence.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Salesforce solutions (Apex, LWC, SOQL/SOSL), manage integrations and sandboxes, define DevOps and deployment standards, monitor performance and security, troubleshoot production issues, and establish safe AI/code-generation practices and governance for the CRM platform.

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.

Leads architecture for Fortive’s HR technology ecosystem, including Oracle HCM, Boomi, ServiceNow HRSD, Eightfold, LMS platforms, and enterprise integrations. Defines API-first integration strategies, data governance, security standards, and modernization roadmaps. Designs and deploys AI, automation, NLP, and chatbot capabilities for HR workflows. Advises HR and IT stakeholders, guides vendors and technical teams, and mentors integration developers while ensuring compliance, data quality, and scalable platform architecture.

Administer and support enterprise platforms including Salesforce, Tableau, and AWS. Develop automation scripts, manage data imports and reporting, troubleshoot applications and integrations, configure workflows and dashboards, monitor system health, and support upgrades. The role collaborates directly with government stakeholders to deliver technical solutions and requires U.S. citizenship plus an existing Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Leads enterprise Salesforce architecture, governance, integrations, data modeling, and multi-cloud transformation across Sales, Service, Health, and Marketing Cloud. Designs APIs, middleware, ETL pipelines, CI/CD processes, and secure data solutions; develops architecture roadmaps aligned with TOGAF; oversees scalable implementations; advises stakeholders; participates in governance; and mentors technical teams.

Leads and mentors software engineers while owning technical decisions, team priorities, delivery, quality, and career development. Partners with product, design, customer success, and DevOps to ship reliable features, resolve production issues, improve CI/CD and testing, and optimize engineering KPIs such as cycle time, WIP, and velocity. The role also supports hiring, performance management, planning, and process improvement in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Senior executive responsible for transforming NICE’s global production engineering organization and owning the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and operations of cloud, telecom, and datacenter platforms. The role leads automation, observability, incident management, AI-assisted operations, infrastructure as code, production governance, organizational transformation, and development of global engineering leadership.

Develop and maintain PowerUp Sports’ software platform, build and release new features, integrate technologies, optimize PHP applications on Azure, manage SQL Server databases, participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support scalable, reliable architecture.

Develop, maintain, test, and troubleshoot information systems, databases, web services, and re-engineered components. Provide infrastructure, development, customer, documentation, and functional testing support. Establish web service standards, create technical documentation and unit test plans, participate in change management and peer reviews, and support configuration control. Analyze project plans, identify risks, plan contingencies, and communicate technical concepts to stakeholders and nontechnical audiences in Agile and Waterfall environments.

Perform daily administration, maintenance, monitoring, security, and configuration of Databricks platform infrastructure. Manage user accounts, permissions, backups, recovery systems, system updates, patches, logs, documentation, and health checks. Troubleshoot hardware and software issues, automate routine tasks through scripting and DevOps tools, and participate in on-call rotations supporting continuous platform availability.

Leads engineering teams delivering secure, scalable, reliable services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities. Defines roadmaps, standards, governance, KPIs, and operating models; develops talent; guides complex technical decisions; drives modernization, automation, AI adoption, reliability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product, architecture, security, infrastructure, vendors, and executives while managing delivery, budgets, resources, risks, and organizational performance.

Build and maintain scalable backend applications, serverless functions, microservices, data workflows, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native architectures using Python and AWS. Manage databases, APIs, batch jobs, and real-time integrations while optimizing performance, scalability, security, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data teams; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, development standards, and technical mentorship. Healthcare claims data experience is required.

Leads and mentors a global engineering organization building and scaling an AI-driven offensive security SaaS platform. Owns technical vision, architecture, engineering standards, quality, security, resiliency, and delivery efficiency. Partners with product and senior leadership, drives AI-assisted development and DevSecOps practices, and recruits and retains high-performing teams while overseeing product improvements and new offerings.

Leads enterprise quality engineering and test automation strategy across UI, API, integration, performance, and data layers. Architects Java-based automation frameworks, integrates quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, and drives AI/LLM adoption for test generation, debugging, self-healing, test data creation, and defect analysis. Establishes ETL and data validation practices, governs DevOps quality standards, mentors QA teams, and collaborates with Engineering, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Product stakeholders to improve quality maturity and delivery predictability.