Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II

Eliassen Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II to administer and standardize enterprise DevSecOps platforms such as GitHub, ServiceNow, and JFrog in a hybrid Washington, DC environment. This contract-to-hire role requires hands-on ownership across platforms with a focus on security, governance, and reliability.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IT, 6+ years in DevOps pipelines in AWS, and strong experience with GitHub, Jenkins, and artifact management.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise tools administration.
• 10+ years of IT experience in application delivery, systems administration, or cloud software engineering.
• 6+ years implementing DevOps pipelines and administering toolsets in AWS environments.
• Hands-on administration with GitHub/GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, Jenkins.
• Experience managing enterprise development platforms including configuration, upgrades, integrations, access controls, governance, and production support.
• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting CI/CD pipelines in large-scale environments.
• Experience integrating code repositories, build tools, artifact repositories, security tools, and IT service-management systems.
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles, software supply-chain security, vulnerability management, and secure development practices.
• Experience automating administrative and operational tasks through scripting, APIs, or IaC tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to operate in an enterprise environment with formal security, change-management, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps platforms, including GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, and Jenkins.
• Assess existing and shadow IT tools and develop plans to migrate, consolidate, integrate, or standardize them within approved enterprise platforms.
• Configure platform organizations, repositories, projects, users, groups, roles, permissions, policies, plug-ins, and integrations.
• Establish and maintain platform governance, security controls, operational standards, and administrative procedures.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD capabilities across enterprise development environments.
• Integrate source-code management, artifact repositories, security-scanning tools, build platforms, ticketing systems, and deployment workflows.
• Configure and maintain artifact-management, software-composition analysis, vulnerability-scanning, and policy-enforcement capabilities.
• Implement access controls, credential-management practices, secrets-management integrations, and audit capabilities.
• Automate platform administration, provisioning, maintenance, compliance checks, and reporting.
• Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, licensing, usage, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, pipeline, authentication, integration, and deployment issues.
• Support platform upgrades, patches, migrations, backup procedures, and disaster-recovery planning.
• Develop technical documentation, platform standards, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and SOPs.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and IT service-management teams.
• Provide technical leadership, user support, platform training, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

DevSecOps

SRE

Automation scripting

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

Tools

GitHub

ServiceNow

JFrog Artifactory

JFrog Xray

CloudBees

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Description

Hybrid 2 in office 3 days remote in Washington, DC

Our client seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer II to administer, integrate, standardize, and support enterprise DevSecOps platforms. The role focuses on bringing existing and shadow IT tooling under approved enterprise standards while improving platform governance, security, reliability, scalability, and adoption. The primary environment includes GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, and Jenkins. The position requires an experienced platform engineer or tools administrator with hands-on ownership of these platforms at scale.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $95.00 to $100.00/hr. w2

JN -102026-109230

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps platforms, including GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, and Jenkins.
• Assess existing and shadow IT tools and develop plans to migrate, consolidate, integrate, or standardize them within approved enterprise platforms.
• Configure platform organizations, repositories, projects, users, groups, roles, permissions, policies, plug-ins, and integrations.
• Establish and maintain platform governance, security controls, operational standards, and administrative procedures.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD capabilities across enterprise development environments.
• Integrate source-code management, artifact repositories, security-scanning tools, build platforms, ticketing systems, and deployment workflows.
• Configure and maintain artifact-management, software-composition analysis, vulnerability-scanning, and policy-enforcement capabilities.
• Implement access controls, credential-management practices, secrets-management integrations, and audit capabilities.
• Automate platform administration, provisioning, maintenance, compliance checks, and reporting.
• Monitor platform availability, capacity, performance, licensing, usage, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, pipeline, authentication, integration, and deployment issues.
• Support platform upgrades, patches, migrations, backup procedures, and disaster-recovery planning.
• Develop technical documentation, platform standards, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and SOPs.
• Collaborate with application development, cloud, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, and IT service-management teams.
• Provide technical leadership, user support, platform training, and knowledge transfer.

Experience Requirements

• Senior-level experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise tools administration.
• 10+ years of IT experience in application delivery, systems administration, or cloud software engineering.
• 6+ years implementing DevOps pipelines and administering toolsets in AWS environments.
• Hands-on administration with several of: GitHub or GitHub Enterprise, ServiceNow, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Xray, CloudBees, Jenkins.
• Experience managing enterprise development platforms including configuration, upgrades, integrations, access controls, governance, and production support.
• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting CI/CD pipelines in large-scale environments.
• Experience integrating code repositories, build tools, artifact repositories, security tools, and IT service-management systems.
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles, software supply-chain security, vulnerability management, and secure development practices.
• Experience automating administrative and operational tasks through scripting, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to operate in an enterprise environment with formal security, change-management, and governance requirements.
• Preferred: advanced administration with GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Platform, CloudBees CI, Jenkins, or ServiceNow.
• Preferred: consolidation of decentralized or shadow IT tools into approved enterprise platforms.
• Preferred: GitHub Actions, Jenkins pipelines, CloudBees pipelines, or similar automation frameworks.
• Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, or Helm.
• Preferred: artifact lifecycle management, SBOMs, dependency scanning, and open-source risk management.
• Preferred: integrations with SSO, SAML, LDAP, Active Directory, secrets-management platforms, and RBAC.
• Preferred: experience in federal government, regulated, or security-conscious environments.
• Preferred: certifications from GitHub, ServiceNow, JFrog, AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
• Preferred: exposure to Atlassian Jira and Confluence administration or cloud migrations.