Top Entry Level DevOps Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and lead a globally distributed DevOps engineering team responsible for reliable platform capabilities and repository experiences. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; guide architecture, security, performance, and maintainability; align delivery with product and design; improve agile workflows and execution; integrate AI-assisted tooling; and support operational health, reliability, and incident management.

Design, build, and operate Tailscale’s global Funnel and DERP networking infrastructure. Develop open-source client dataplane features, improve scalability and reliability, troubleshoot complex connectivity issues, support customer escalations, and participate in incident management. The role requires strong networking expertise across VPNs, NAT traversal, routing, and IP addressing, plus experience with distributed systems, SRE, DevOps, and preferably Go.

Build and maintain cloud-native production platforms, automate infrastructure and deployment environments, and bridge application development with production teams. Responsibilities include validating implementations, independently solving technical problems, developing small components, estimating work, debugging systems, and promoting DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and security best practices. The role requires Kubernetes and cloud experience, programming and shell scripting knowledge, YAML proficiency, cross-functional collaboration, and U.S. citizenship.

Leads Huge’s global technology practice, engineering teams, client technology strategy, project delivery, innovation, and organic business development. Oversees complex web and mobile solutions, architecture, quality, security, vendors, and distributed teams. Guides adoption of AI, cloud, microservices, DevOps, e-commerce, enterprise platforms, and modern development practices while mentoring technical talent and communicating effectively with executives and cross-functional partners.

Own and develop HPC/GPU infrastructure for R&D and customer deployments. Design cross-platform CI/CD pipelines, manage on-premise and cloud Kubernetes clusters with GPU passthrough and MIG, configure self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, and maintain DockerHub registries. Assemble and tune physical GPU servers, manage PCIe topology and hardware constraints, and maintain compatibility across NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and ROCm versions. Provide customer-facing technical assistance for GPU container deployments.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, provision infrastructure with Terraform, and manage AWS cloud services and containerized environments. The role supports Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, AI engineering platforms, secure infrastructure baselines, and internal developer tooling. The engineer partners with architecture and development teams to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure patterns while documenting decisions and collaborating in an Agile remote environment.

Leads a DevOps engineering team while contributing hands-on to infrastructure as code, release automation, scalable architecture, CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, code reviews, and production support. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, coordinating sprints, partnering with product and platform teams, and delivering secure, reliable infrastructure using Ansible, Molecule, Terraform, AWS, scripting, Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub.

Assist with monitoring system performance, uptime, and reliability; support incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis; monitor SRE alerts in Slack and report issues; learn cloud platforms; and collaborate with development and DevOps teams.

The Public Cloud Solution Architect will work with Canonical's partners to drive cloud initiatives, integrating Ubuntu and ensuring alignment on product strategies while creating promotional materials and advocating for cloud adoption.

Designs and maintains secure, scalable backend services, microservices, APIs, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and observability platforms. Implements Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps controls, performs vulnerability management and incident troubleshooting, conducts architecture and security reviews, documents systems, collaborates across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and evaluates technologies to improve reliability and delivery.

Build and deploy applications and prototypes on AWS, own and maintain code, set up tests and monitoring for data pipelines, and collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers to create datasets, experiments, and supporting technology.

The Developer Relations role involves gathering developer feedback, building product adoption, refining open-source initiatives, and creating educational resources. It requires strong communication skills and familiarity with DevOps practices.

Loti AI seeks a DevOps engineer for decentralized infrastructure to deploy, scale, and maintain distributed systems, manage IPFS clusters, and oversee blockchain nodes.

The DevOps role focuses on delivering unique technology solutions and consulting services, fostering teamwork, and driving results in a dynamic IT environment.

Lead global CloudOps and DevOps teams, design scalable AWS architectures, manage Terraform automation, Kubernetes environments, and CI/CD pipelines. Drive cloud modernization, security, disaster recovery, high availability, monitoring, and observability initiatives. Provide architectural governance, technical leadership, production incident escalation support, and communication with senior leadership and cross-functional teams. The role is full-time and onsite in Washington, DC.

Apply to join Galaxy Ventures' invite-only Talent Network for DevOps, SRE, QA, and Security professionals. Upon acceptance, your profile may be discreetly shared with portfolio companies for relevant roles, and you'll receive invitations to exclusive networking events. Participation is confidential and non-binding.