Cloud Platform Engineer: DevSecOps, CI/CD, AI-Ready

Phoenix Operations Group; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Company Paid Premiums

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

401K Contribution

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Referral Bonuses

Open Source Bonuses

Professional Development

Job summary

Phoenix Operations Group is seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud platform engineering, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD implementation, deployment, configuration, testing, and operational support in mission-oriented environments. The role spans across AWS, Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling to deploy secure, scalable capabilities.

The successful candidate will collaborate with data, security, and application teams to ensure secure, repeatable, and resilient

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, DevSecOps, or platform operations.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipeline implementation, deployment automation, or release support using GitLab CI/CD or similar tools.
• Experience with cloud environment configuration, testing, troubleshooting, or operational support.
• Experience administering, configuring, or troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
• Familiarity with secure software delivery practices and integrated development environments.
• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, automation, or infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Ability to work across platform, application, data, security, and mission teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to support secure or mission‑oriented environments.
• Experience with AWS and Databricks is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Support cloud platform engineering, deployment, configuration, and testing activities.
• Build, maintain, or support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms.
• Support DevOps and DevSecOps practices across development, test, and operational environments.
• Assist with deployment automation, environment configuration, and release support.
• Support containerized and distributed environments using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar technologies.
• Implement or maintain infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or comparable platforms.
• Install, configure, harden, and troubleshoot Linux-based and cloud-based infrastructure services.
• Work with data engineers, application teams, security teams, and integration teams to move capabilities into operational use.
• Troubleshoot cloud platform, deployment, pipeline, configuration, networking, and integration issues.
• Support monitoring, logging, observability, reliability, scalability, and performance optimization activities.
• Support testing and validation of integrated cloud, data, and application capabilities.
• Help ensure solutions are implemented in a secure, repeatable, resilient, and mission‑ready manner.
• Support secure configuration, patching, vulnerability management, and operational sustainment activities.
• Document deployment processes, environment dependencies, architecture considerations, configuration steps, and operational procedures.
• Support evaluation of software dependencies, licensing considerations, and supply chain security risks where applicable.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Containerization

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Databricks

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Security hardening

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Phoenix Operations Group is seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud platform engineering, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD implementation, deployment, configuration, testing, and operational support in mission-oriented environments. The role spans across AWS, Databricks, Docker, Kubernetes, and IaC tooling to deploy secure, scalable capabilities.

The successful candidate will collaborate with data, security, and application teams to ensure secure, repeatable, and resilient