Remote DevOps Engineer — Cloud Infra & Kubernetes

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our VA.gov Platform Infrastructure Services team. You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform services that power VA.gov.

This role enables dozens of engineering teams to securely deliver digital services to millions of Veterans by providing scalable infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10 years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Production AWS experience required.
• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes (Amazon EKS or equivalent).
• Strong proficiency with Terraform (Terragrunt preferred).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong Linux systems administration and shell scripting experience.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, and container networking.
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting VA.gov Platform.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, libraries, and automation across teams.
• Improve platform scalability, resiliency, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to internal platform capabilities that improve developer experience.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Participate in business-hours support rotation and production on-call responsibilities.
• Troubleshoot production infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, deployment failures, and cloud services.
• Build infrastructure that meets security, availability, and performance requirements.
• Collaborate with security engineers to continuously improve Platform's security posture.

Job description

OpenTalent is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our VA.gov Platform Infrastructure Services team. You will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform services that power VA.gov.

This role enables dozens of engineering teams to securely deliver digital services to millions of Veterans by providing scalable infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling.