DevOps Engineering Manager (D.C. Area)

Mixpeek; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Legion seeks a DevOps Engineering Manager in the D.C. area to lead a team of DevOps and Deployment engineers. This role requires an active TS/SCI eligibility and experience with government deployments, hardening, and secure operations.

You will own deployment reliability, CI/CD standards, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product, and mission engineering to deliver resilient, scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments.
• Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience.
• Experience operating customer-facing production systems.
• Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Deployment Engineers.
• Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.
• Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.
• Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.
• Oversee deployment readiness, health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.
• Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.
• Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards.

Skills

DevOps

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Communication

Security hardening

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About Legion

Let's be real, AI isn't magic; Legion was built to move beyond AI hype—delivering secure, reliable systems that work alongside the people tackling the world's most critical challenges.

Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems, unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and strengthening mission-critical systems. We don't replace workflows—we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use.

With world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we're building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises.

We're looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that's secure, grounded, and built to work.

DevOps Engineering Manager (DevOps/DevSecOps/Site Reliability/Deployment Engineering) (D.C. Area)

***This position requires a US Department of Defense or Intelligence ACTIVE Top Secret (TS) clearance and also be eligible for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) - eligibility only needed for SCI clearance***

***25% of time embedded with customers, working independently in classified or constrained environments***

***Due to Government contract requirements, we are only able to hire US citizens***

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Deployment Engineers.
• Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.
• Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.
• Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.

Deployment Operations & Reliability

• In addition to DevOps will lead the Deployment Engineering team's execution of customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support.
• Oversee operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities required to support deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues.
• Drive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience.
• Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.
• Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards that ensure deployed systems meet Legion's requirements for velocity, resiliency, and control.

Deployment Architecture & Standards

• Guide the development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures across Legion environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are deployable, supportable, and maintainable.
• Drive standardization and automation efforts that improve scalability and reduce operational burden.

Platform & Infrastructure Engineering

• Lead the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities.
• Partner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to support product roadmap execution and operational requirements.

Customer Engagement

• Engage directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation activities.
• Support mission-critical deployments and operational troubleshooting when required.
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders.
• Represent Legion during technical discussions involving deployment architecture, operational readiness, and platform sustainment.

Deployment Engineering

• The Deployment Engineering team is responsible for operationalizing Legion's software across customer environments ranging from enterprise cloud deployments to disconnected and air-gapped tactical systems.
• The Deployment Engineering Manager leads this function, partnering closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure Legion systems remain operationally effective throughout their lifecycle.
• The team's mission is to ensure Legion capabilities can be deployed, upgraded, sustained, and scaled reliably across cloud, on-premises, classified, air-gapped, and edge environments. Deployment Engineering serves as the bridge between product development and operational reality, translating platform capabilities into repeatable deployment patterns and operational processes in support of customer outcomes.
• Success means delivering resilient customer deployments, maintaining operational readiness across the deployment fleet, accelerating upgrade velocity, reducing deployment and sustainment burden through automation, and enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that can be operated reliably in real-world environments.

Qualifications

Required

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, deployment engineering, or related disciplines.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments.
• Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements.
• Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience operating customer-facing production systems.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience.
• Experience managing operational incidents and production outages.
• Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or data-intensive software platforms.
• Experience delivering software to disconnected tactical edge environments.

What Success Looks Like

• Legion deployments are resilient, predictable, and operationally ready.
• Customer environments remain healthy across cloud, classified, air-gapped, and edge deployments.
• Software upgrades are delivered rapidly and consistently across the deployment fleet.
• Deployment timelines and support burden decrease through automation and standardization.
• Customer outages are minimized and resolved quickly when they occur.
• Product teams move faster because deployment infrastructure is dependable and scalable.
• New platform capabilities can be operationalized rapidly without creating long-term sustainment burden.
• Legion scales operational deployments without proportional growth in deployment engineering headcount.
• Customers trust Legion to operate in environments where connectivity is unavailable, degraded, intermittent, or operationally risky.

Compensation Information

$200,000 — $240,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement

Legion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.