Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

ECS; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate modern cloud platforms and delivery pipelines in a hybrid work environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding and automation, cross-team collaboration with software, security, and infrastructure groups, and a focus on reliability, security, and scalability across AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical roles with hands-on DevOps/cloud experience.
• Strong expertise in IaC, CI/CD, containers, Linux, networking.
• Ability to design, build, and operate scalable cloud platforms and pipelines.
• Experience collaborating with software, security, and infra teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and modernize scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for apps, infra, and config deployments.
• Create automation scripts using Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Deploy containerized apps with Docker and Kubernetes; manage cloud runners.
• Architect cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
• Support microservices, APIs, distributed apps, and cloud-native platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and performance management.
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, network, cloud, and deployment issues.
• Improve reliability, resiliency, and operational efficiency via automation.
• Enforce secure configuration, IAM, secrets management, certs, and best practices.
• Partner with software and security to enhance workflows and deployment operability.
• Identify repetitive processes and replace with scalable automation.
• Evaluate new cloud/DevOps technologies and integration opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on implementation guidance.

Skills

DevOps Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Platform Engineering

Unix/Linux Administration

Infrastructure Automation

CI/CD Engineering

Networking & Virtual Infrastructure

Containerization & Kubernetes

Application Deployment & Operations

Scripting/Software Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree or Associate degree in a technical field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions / GitLab CI/CD / Jenkins / Azure DevOps

Ansible / Puppet / Chef

Prometheus / Grafana / OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer to work in our Arlington, VA (hybrid) office.

We are looking for a talented Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer who is passionate about building, automating, and operating modern cloud environments. Strong candidates will have deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, containers, Linux, networking, and infrastructure-as-code, with a desire to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of technical environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, automating, and operating cloud platforms and delivery pipelines. The ideal candidate will be comfortable writing code and automation, troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and partnering directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting application, infrastructure, and configuration deployments.
• Develop automation, tooling, scripts, and integrations using languages such as Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native container platforms.
• Design and implement cloud architectures using services across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, scaling, and operational workflows.
• Support the development and operation of microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-native platforms.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and performance-management capabilities across applications and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving Linux systems, networking, containers, cloud services, application deployments, and automation pipelines.
• Improve system reliability, availability, resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering.
• Implement and maintain secure configuration, identity and access controls, secrets management, certificates, and cloud security best practices.
• Partner with software engineers to improve development workflows, deployment processes, and application operability.
• Partner with security engineers to integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows.
• Identify repetitive operational processes and replace them with scalable automation.
• Evaluate new cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, and automation technologies and determine where they can improve the environment.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship while remaining actively involved in implementation and troubleshooting.

Salary Range: $140,000-$200,000

General Description Of Benefits

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or another technical discipline, or an associate degree with equivalent years of relevant technical experience.
• At least 8 years of overall technical experience, including significant hands-on experience in several of the following areas:
  • DevOps Engineering
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Platform Engineering
  • Unix/Linux Administration
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • CI/CD Engineering
  • Networking and Virtual Infrastructure
  • Containerization and Kubernetes
  • Application Deployment and Operations
  • Software Development or Scripting
• Strong scripting or development experience in at least one language such as Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, Perl, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure using automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Demonstrated ability to independently troubleshoot complex infrastructure, cloud, networking, application, and deployment issues.
• Ability to work directly with software, security, and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into reliable and maintainable engineering solutions.

Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation and obtain the required Government Security Clearance

Desired Skills

• Strong understanding of Git and modern source-control workflows.
• Strong experience with Python, Golang, C#, Java, or another general-purpose programming language.
• Strong experience with Bash and/or PowerShell.
• Deep knowledge of Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and core system services.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing, firewalls, routing, proxies, and network troubleshooting.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code technologies.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with configuration-management technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or equivalent tools.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Elastic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with cloud identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, certificates, and secure cloud configuration.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts such as service-level objectives, availability, resiliency, capacity management, and incident response.
• Experience supporting highly available, fault‑tolerant, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating automated testing, security scanning, policy checks, and deployment controls into CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging systems, caching platforms, and other common cloud application services.

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ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

Everforth ECS is the federal segment of Everforth, a $4B global organization with over 10,000 employees. Our nearly 3,500 professionals deliver advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation, serving defense, intelligence, and federal civilian agencies.

Our work powers mission‑critical outcomes, strengthens technology partnerships, and creates meaningful opportunities for our people. We are defined by a commitment to excellence in delivery, a culture of innovation, and an environment where talent can thrive and grow.

We Value

• Attracting and developing top talent and high-performing teams
• Fostering a culture that is engaging, accountable, and mission‑driven

Meet the challenge. Make a difference with Everforth ECS!