Top Senior DevOps Jobs in Washington, DC

Administer Red Hat Linux, AWS cloud infrastructure, open-source platforms, and scalable big-data environments. Build CI/CD pipelines, maintain systems, patch applications, manage backups and VPNs, troubleshoot production issues, and support security compliance. Lead AWS and cluster networking design, monitor systems, respond to incidents, coordinate vendors, and develop secure configurations across development, test, and production environments.

Owns build and deployment automation, platform health, scaling, monitoring, and high-availability DevOps pipelines. The role involves developing self-service tools, expanding a multi-account AWS environment, improving SRE practices, and securing systems for commercial and high-side environments. Requires strong AWS, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, scripting, and monitoring expertise, plus U.S. citizenship and TS/SCI with full-scope polygraph clearance. Travel to a Washington, DC customer site may reach 50%.

Designs, deploys, secures, and optimizes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments for mission-critical federal systems. Responsibilities include managing OCI compute, networking, storage, databases, VCNs, security controls, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible, monitoring, troubleshooting, cost optimization, documentation, and supporting cloud migrations. The role collaborates across security, development, and operations teams while maintaining compliance with NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP requirements.

Designs, develops, integrates, and supports enterprise business applications and systems, including PMIS and Workday-related solutions. Translates business needs into technical architectures, integrations, reports, dashboards, and analytics. Collaborates with business owners, vendors, and IT teams on implementation, change management, security, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement. The role also evaluates technology proposals and supports enterprise architecture standards across organizational functions.

Lead technical onboarding and enablement for contact center partners, architecting scalable Zendesk, Amazon Connect, and AWS solutions. Provide co-selling support, technical strategy, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, training, documentation, governance, and mentorship. Collaborate with partners, sales, engineering, and vendors to drive successful implementations, security compliance, innovation, and adoption of AI, automation, and omnichannel contact center technologies.

Develops and delivers resilient full-stack applications and services for Vantage’s reinsurance business. Responsibilities include application design, coding, debugging, testing, architecture discussions, risk management, roadmap estimation, stakeholder consultation, and coordination across project teams. The role promotes software engineering standards, DevSecOps, CI/CD, agile practices, innovation, and mentoring while building solutions with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, cloud, serverless, and modern infrastructure technologies.

Build and manage automated workflows that improve business and technology productivity within a DevSecOps infrastructure team. Responsibilities include addressing complex technical problems, mentoring team members, maintaining high-quality project standards, supporting CI/CD and cloud infrastructure, automating deployment tasks, and developing client relationships. The role requires three years of technology experience and familiarity with cloud, containers, Linux, DevOps toolchains, monitoring platforms, and test automation.

Develops and maintains on-premises DevOps infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, virtualization, and deployment workflows. Supports secure application builds, releases, testing, disaster recovery, and Tier II/III troubleshooting while ensuring compliance with DISA STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements. Collaborates with systems, network, security, application, and government teams at the Washington Navy Yard.

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.

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.

Build and maintain Gallatin’s Vue-based Navigator frontend, including reusable UI components, design-system primitives, offline Progressive Web App functionality, API integrations, testing, and CI/CD improvements. Ensure reliable desktop and iPad experiences, troubleshoot API and CORS issues, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with product, design, and backend teams. The role also involves documentation, demos, cross-functional troubleshooting, and potentially mentoring junior engineers.

Designs, integrates, monitors, and maintains complex infrastructure and computing systems. Responsibilities include system configuration, testing, troubleshooting, backup and redundancy, automation scripting, performance monitoring, documentation, requirements translation, security implementation, and ensuring application availability. The role applies DevOps and zero-trust practices, manages networking and system administration, supports technology evaluations, and communicates project progress to leadership.

Leads enterprise application operations, integration middleware, SaaS administration, release and environment management, security compliance, and application support for a federal customer. Supervises the applications and integration team, resolves complex incidents, manages vendors and platform configurations, maintains ITSM documentation, and ensures compliance with ITIL, FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, and Zero Trust requirements.

Designs, deploys, integrates, monitors, and maintains complex infrastructure and computing systems across their lifecycle. Responsibilities include system administration, hardware and software troubleshooting, networking, security, backup and redundancy, performance testing, automation scripting, DevOps or DevSecOps implementation, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and zero-trust adoption. The role also gathers requirements, coordinates testing, trains users, reports to management, and ensures mission-critical application availability.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for secure fintech and crypto products. Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, code reviews, system design, and deployment using Azure. Optimize backend performance and scalability, resolve defects, follow DevOps and CI/CD practices, and build reliable systems supporting payments, transfers, and other financial activity.

Build and maintain enterprise DevOps and developer-experience infrastructure for Hivemind Solutions. Responsibilities include GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runner fleets, automation integrations, cloud-based simulation environments, Artifactory registries, secure container builds, Nix developer environments, and troubleshooting distributed development systems. The role requires strong scripting, Linux administration, cloud, security, and CI/CD expertise, along with eligibility for an active U.S. Secret clearance.

Lead and mentor software engineers while driving architecture, code quality, delivery processes, deployment reliability, and technical excellence. Collaborate with product and design stakeholders on roadmaps and deliverables, provide hands-on technical guidance, mitigate project risks, and support hiring and team development. The role requires expertise in software engineering, scalable architectures, databases, APIs, distributed systems, DevOps, and high-performance applications within a remote, fast-paced environment.

Build and operate scalable web applications and cloud services for secure, high-stakes digital assessments. Develop React, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS features; create serverless and container-based systems; maintain infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines; write automated tests; troubleshoot production issues; and improve performance, reliability, and security. Collaborate in Agile teams, contribute to architecture and documentation, and mentor junior developers.

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.

Design, build, and scale Shepherd’s core platform, backend systems, APIs, user-facing applications, and AI-powered legal workflows. Architect secure, reliable infrastructure for sensitive legal data, collaborate with legal and product teams, build internal tools, optimize performance, and own technical decisions. The role also involves rapid prototyping, mentoring and recruiting engineers, and contributing to SOC 2 readiness and data privacy practices.

Designs and advances enterprise data and AI architectures, including cloud platforms, data warehouses, lakehouses, machine learning, generative AI, integrations, and governance. Leads architecture standards, technical evaluations, proofs of concept, design reviews, troubleshooting, and implementation with engineering teams. Establishes data lineage, metadata, model governance, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks while advising executives on roadmaps, risks, trade-offs, and technology investments.

Deploys and operates Kubernetes environments across AWS, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure. Builds UDS packages and application modules using infrastructure-as-code, supports customers through onboarding and training, troubleshoots production issues, provides on-call support, and improves delivery processes through operational analysis and customer feedback. The role also contributes to product direction, service development, deployment playbooks, and team mentorship.

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.

Develops advanced automated testing frameworks and leads test strategies for complex software applications across platforms. Oversees testing efforts, defect tracking, regression testing, and quality improvements while collaborating with developers and DevOps teams on CI/CD automation. Mentors junior staff, evaluates testing tools, supports the software development lifecycle, and applies data-driven insights to improve QA processes.

Own and deliver complex full-stack software features for custom labs and related applications. Design, build, test, document, and maintain APIs, databases, user interfaces, infrastructure, and libraries using C# or JavaScript/TypeScript. Lead AI-assisted development workflows, review generated code, ensure security and quality, collaborate with cross-functional Scrum teams, estimate scope, and participate in on-call support.