Hybrid DevOps Engineer: Secure CI/CD & IaC Expert

OpenTalent; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Ashburn, VA is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and maintain secure, automated infrastructure across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will build CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and drive observability and security practices in a collaboration‑driven team.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience, strong Linux administration, plus hands-on AWS and automation tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or 3+ years with a Master's degree, or equivalent experience.
• On-Prem Infrastructure & Linux: Experience managing virtualization platforms such as VMware ESXi, automating OS provisioning using PXE boot and Kickstart, strong Linux administration (RHEL & Ubuntu) and applying system hardening through patching, updates and dependency management.
• Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure as Code: Strong understanding of AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Route 53, VPC networking and Security Hub, with hands-on experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation and Ansible or Chef, and designing for scalability, security, cost optimization, resilience and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain secure, automated infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Implement and manage configuration management solutions to ensure consistency across servers and applications.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and artifact repositories for both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Apply security best practices, compliance standards and system hardening across environments, including access management and audit logging to ensure accountability for all data flows.
• Build observability solutions (monitoring, logging, alerting) for both on-prem and cloud systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to foster a security-first DevSecOps culture, using automation to improve consistency, speed and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment and provisioning issues across development, staging and production environments.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Observability

Security

DevSecOps

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible or Chef

VMware ESXi

PXE boot

Kickstart

RHEL

Ubuntu

AWS services (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Security Hub)

Job description

OpenTalent in Ashburn, VA is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to design, deploy and maintain secure, automated infrastructure across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will build CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and drive observability and security practices in a collaboration‑driven team.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience, strong Linux administration, plus hands-on AWS and automation tooling.