Top Senior DevOps Jobs in Washington, DC

Own AWS and GCP security, reliability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, incident response, engineering tooling, and cloud cost optimization. Establish shared DevOps practices, implement secure deployment strategies, administer tools, support multiple teams, and improve platform delivery and operational processes.

Lead technical direction and hands-on delivery for a government-focused product. Architect and implement scalable full-stack features using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, TypeScript, and Hibernate; apply cloud-native architecture, AI agents, and LLMs; enforce engineering, testing, observability, and DevOps practices; mentor engineers; and drive secure, reliable, high-quality releases.

Leads enterprise systems architecture for telecommunications IT environments, with a specialized focus on Netcracker core billing. Designs and integrates rating, invoicing, payments, collections, and mediation solutions; guides Agile and SAFe delivery; manages architecture artifacts, technical roadmaps, risks, dependencies, security, compliance, and operational readiness. Collaborates across business, product, engineering, infrastructure, cloud, data, security, and operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, supportable systems.

Leads architecture, engineering, security, governance, automation, and strategic direction for enterprise Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud platforms. Designs scalable cloud-native solutions, automates provisioning and security remediation, manages infrastructure as code, oversees migrations and modernization, defines standards and roadmaps, and serves as the highest technical escalation point. Partners with vendors and internal teams, mentors engineers, and ensures platform reliability, compliance, monitoring, and operational support.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Leads hands-on automated testing and quality engineering for DCSA mission-critical systems. Builds Tosca automation across UI, API, mobile, and packaged applications; governs qTest traceability and reporting; integrates automated suites with CI/CD quality gates; coordinates test cycles, defect triage, release readiness, and performance testing. Coaches testers, architects reusable automation frameworks, manages stakeholder alignment, and supports government customer briefings while maintaining quality across complex federal programs.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Owns uptime, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, shared Linux environments, and incident response for live client applications across Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare. Responsibilities include provisioning environments, managing secrets and identities, maintaining monitoring and reliability practices, supporting releases and database migrations, responding to production incidents, and leading post-incident reviews. The role requires strong Azure DevOps, Bicep or Terraform, Linux, AWS, Cloudflare, and observability experience.

Leads data engineering teams and provides technical direction for software architecture, development, DevOps, engineering standards, platform strategy, and production support. Partners with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders on roadmaps and solutions, manages vendors, coaches engineers, recruits talent, and oversees team performance, budgets, objectives, and continuous improvement.

Leads and develops software engineering teams while remaining hands-on with Java and Spring Boot development. Responsibilities include setting architecture and technical roadmaps, delivering scalable enterprise applications, guiding Agile planning, improving CI/CD and DevOps practices, supporting production reliability, mentoring talent, and partnering with product and business stakeholders. The role manages hiring, performance, succession planning, and engineering excellence initiatives.

Designs, automates, secures, and supports AWS infrastructure, ECS services, and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for a mission-critical VA application. Manages infrastructure as code, Docker and ECR workflows, multi-environment releases, system hardening, vulnerability scanning, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and federal security compliance. Collaborates with development, QA, security, operations, and VA stakeholders to deliver reliable, compliant deployments.

Design, build, and operate resilient AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code modules in a regulated medical-device environment. Improve security, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, deployments, and operational support. Collaborate with Engineering, QA, IT, and Security teams while troubleshooting distributed systems and providing technical leadership across global teams.

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.

Own and scale Zafran’s US production environment, including AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform-based deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, reliability, and incident response. Partner with engineering on application troubleshooting, lead the US DevOps presence, and coordinate platform standards with the Tel Aviv team. The role requires strong development skills, production DevOps experience, high-availability and disaster-recovery expertise, and the ability to mentor a small team.

Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment workflows across AWS and Azure. Manage Docker and Kubernetes environments, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, automate provisioning with Ansible and AWX, administer Linux and Windows systems, and support release engineering. Develop scripts, monitor system health, apply security policies, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to deliver reliable software releases.

Provides technical leadership for mainframe automation architecture, development, integration, and performance improvement. Designs scalable solutions across z/OS environments and automation platforms, reduces manual intervention through automated corrective actions, and guides agile engineering practices. Evaluates tool effectiveness, identifies systemic gaps, and drives enhancements for proactive issue detection. The role requires strong mainframe programming expertise, technical leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Administer and secure enterprise Linux, middleware, web server, and COTS environments supporting 24/7 production systems. Develop Ansible automation for patching, STIG compliance, security baselines, and CVE/KEV remediation. Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, manage virtualization and containers, support monitoring, backups, incident response, and ITIL processes, and coordinate vulnerability remediation and production changes independently.

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.

Designs and owns secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for greenfield builds and migrations. Leads systems architecture, disaster recovery, networking, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost optimization. Develops automation in Python and Bash, supports services in Java or Node.js, evaluates AI-assisted engineering tools, leads client architecture workshops, manages incident response, and mentors engineers.

Operates and supports customer cloud environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and OCI. Responsibilities include monitoring, incident and request response, provisioning, access management, maintenance, troubleshooting, governance, documentation, customer communication, and ITSM execution. The role also uses scripting, automation, monitoring, and DevOps/SRE practices to improve operational consistency. Participation in after-hours and weekend on-call support is required.

Leads software engineering teams, develops technical and people leaders, modernizes legacy customer-facing applications, and advances engineering practices. Partners with product, architecture, quality, DevOps, delivery, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, security, customer experience, adoption, and delivery speed. Drives CI/CD, automation, observability, resilience, cloud-native practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted software development while managing priorities, risks, dependencies, capacity, and organizational change.

Own and improve multi-cloud production infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Build developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, Terraform modules, and production Kubernetes environments. Lead incident response, root-cause remediation, observability, networking, security, cost optimization, and reliability initiatives. The role requires hands-on automation and programming, collaboration with security and application teams, mentoring, global on-call participation, and regular overlap with U.S. Pacific Time.

Build and operate AWS infrastructure for Windows and IIS applications using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automation. Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS, troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, implement monitoring and security hardening, automate patching and credential or certificate rotation, and support ECS containerization. Collaborate with application, development, and security teams while reviewing infrastructure code and maintaining production services. Occasional after-hours maintenance or outage support is required.

Designs and manages AWS cloud infrastructure and Amazon EKS platforms using GitLab CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Builds ETL workflows and scalable data pipelines for analytics and AI workloads, supports MLOps/AIOps and FinOps capabilities, troubleshoots Linux systems, and improves platform performance, security, scalability, and availability.

Designs, builds, and maintains Azure-focused CI/CD pipelines and Terraform-managed infrastructure for client environments, with AWS support on cross-cloud engagements. Advises on infrastructure security, containerization, Kubernetes deployments, reliability, and troubleshooting across application layers. The role also mentors engineers, documents reusable DevOps patterns, presents technical solutions to stakeholders, and helps establish repeatable architectures across client engagements.