Senior DevOps & Deployment Engineering Manager

Mixpeek; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Legion seeks a DevOps Engineering Manager in the D.C. area to lead a team of DevOps and Deployment engineers. This role requires an active TS/SCI eligibility and experience with government deployments, hardening, and secure operations.

You will own deployment reliability, CI/CD standards, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product, and mission engineering to deliver resilient, scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering or related fields.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments.
• Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements.
• Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience.
• Experience operating customer-facing production systems.
• Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Deployment Engineers.
• Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.
• Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.
• Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.
• Oversee deployment readiness, health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.
• Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.
• Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards.

Skills

DevOps

Leadership

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Communication

Security hardening

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Legion seeks a DevOps Engineering Manager in the D.C. area to lead a team of DevOps and Deployment engineers. This role requires an active TS/SCI eligibility and experience with government deployments, hardening, and secure operations.

You will own deployment reliability, CI/CD standards, and cross-functional collaboration with security, product, and mission engineering to deliver resilient, scalable platforms.