Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS/GitOps)

ICF; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own multi-account AWS platforms and evolve cloud infrastructure for secure, observable, and recoverable services. You will drive Terraform automation, GitOps with Argo CD, and CI/CD pipelines while partnering with security and app teams.

The role requires 8+ years in DevOps, strong AWS production experience, and solid Kubernetes administration. A US citizen or PR is required for contract compliance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability experience.
• 5+ years operating production workloads on AWS.
• 3+ years building and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar.
• Experience administering production Kubernetes environments (Amazon EKS, Helm, ingress, RBAC, secrets, upgrades).
• Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident per contract requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and day-to-day operation of multi-account AWS environments across dev, QA, staging, and prod.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and Terragrunt configurations.
• Administer EKS Auto Mode and Kubernetes resources using Helm, Argo CD, and ApplicationSets.
• Support GitOps controllers and Kubernetes infrastructure automation.
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows, AWS OIDC authentication, and deployment pipelines.

Skills

AWS expertise

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Linux scripting

Security controls

US Citizenship or PR

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

EKS

Helm

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Job description

ICF is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own multi-account AWS platforms and evolve cloud infrastructure for secure, observable, and recoverable services. You will drive Terraform automation, GitOps with Argo CD, and CI/CD pipelines while partnering with security and app teams.

The role requires 8+ years in DevOps, strong AWS production experience, and solid Kubernetes administration. A US citizen or PR is required for contract compliance.