Remote Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer - Platform Automation

initiate-solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K matching

Paid time off

Training time

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Education assistance

Employee recognition

Referral programs

Job summary

Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is seeking a remote DevOps Engineer to support federal partners by designing and delivering a secure, scalable cloud-native platform. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments of containerized apps and APIs, and enforce DevSecOps practices across the stack.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of AWS and Kubernetes experience, IaC proficiency, and a proven ability to work with product, security, and operations teams in a government environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of AWS Cloud and/or DevOps at scale.
• Hands-on Kubernetes design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with IaC and scripting languages.
• US Citizenship required due to clearance.

Responsibilities

• Create automated platform for deploying containerized apps and exposing API endpoints.
• Define architectural blueprint for cloud-native environments with focus on security and automation.
• Collaborate with product owners, security teams, and stakeholders to enable roadmaps.
• Establish engineering standards across the program leveraging DevSecOps expertise.
• Deliver PaaS capabilities and end-to-end secure CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

DevSecOps

IaC

CI/CD

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Docker

ArgoCD

mTLS

Istio/Cilium

Job description

Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is seeking a remote DevOps Engineer to support federal partners by designing and delivering a secure, scalable cloud-native platform. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments of containerized apps and APIs, and enforce DevSecOps practices across the stack.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of AWS and Kubernetes experience, IaC proficiency, and a proven ability to work with product, security, and operations teams in a government environment.