Top Senior 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 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.

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.

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.

Design and develop enterprise application architectures aligned with enterprise standards. Lead technical planning, create architecture artifacts, evaluate integrations, define specifications, and guide teams on APIs, microservices, containers, cloud, event-driven and secure design practices. Influence strategy and make technical decisions for complex projects.

Develop, configure, integrate, and support ServiceNow solutions across ITSM, telecommunications, order management, and operations modules. Responsibilities include building workflows and applications, maintaining integrations and CMDB data, supporting upgrades and migrations, automating processes, troubleshooting platform issues, gathering requirements, and collaborating in Agile teams. The role is fully onsite in Washington, DC and requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and Security+ certification.

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.

Manage and optimize hybrid Azure, AWS, on-premises, Windows Server, and VMware infrastructure. Build automation with PowerShell, Python, and Terraform; administer containers with Docker and Kubernetes; monitor environments using Splunk and Azure Monitor; enforce identity, security, and compliance controls; implement disaster recovery; and support CI/CD, DevOps, AIOps, and machine learning initiatives.

Manage, administer, support, and enhance cloud environments; automate cloud resource provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code; troubleshoot complex issues; develop cloud-native solutions; and mentor team members. The role requires AWS, Linux, Bash, Terraform or Vault, Kubernetes, networking, and Top Secret clearance, with preferred experience in CI/CD, containers, DevOps, GitLab, cloud security, Python, Java, and AWS certifications.

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, integrates, monitors, and maintains complex infrastructure and computing systems. Responsibilities include system configuration, testing, performance monitoring, backup and security implementation, automation scripting, troubleshooting, documentation, requirements translation, interoperability, vulnerability remediation, DevOps practices, zero-trust implementation, and ensuring high availability of mission-critical applications. The role is onsite in Washington, DC and requires an active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for Top Secret/SCI.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Leads testing for secure digital capabilities across ServiceNow and integrated systems in a classified Agile environment. Responsibilities include analyzing requirements, designing test strategies, creating automated tests, executing functional and integration testing, documenting defects, supporting releases, coordinating dependent-system testing, mentoring testers, and improving automation and regression coverage. The role requires collaboration with development, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, configuration management, and customer teams.

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.

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.