Senior Devops Engineer - 173591

Zachary Piper Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to shape the architecture and technical direction of platform services in a cloud software environment. You will drive automation, reliability, and scalable deployment capabilities across engineering teams, with a focus on FedRAMP High and IL5 initiatives.

Responsibilities include defining technical strategy, owning deployment workflows, and leading cross-team architectural reviews to ensure security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
• Strong OO programming background before transitioning into DevOps roles (Python/Go/Java/Ruby or similar).
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, deployment orchestration, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and platform automation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.
• Proven experience building deployment platforms and self-service developer experiences.
• Experience with FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud or other regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments.
• Own architectural decisions across centralized platform APIs, reusable CI/CD components, deployment workflows, and automated service onboarding.
• Lead modernization of manual release and promotion processes via automated, policy-driven delivery pipelines.
• Build and establish golden path deployment frameworks for rapid, reliable app deployment onto the platform.
• Develop standards for deployment validation, audit compliance, change control, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities and drive technical decisions.
• Lead architecture reviews focused on security, observability, reliability, and operational ownership.

Skills

Platform Engineering

SRE

DevOps

Cloud Operations

Tools

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

AWS

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Devops Engineer to join a leading cloud software organization supporting highly regulated federal environments. The Senior Devops Engineer will shape the architecture and technical direction of platform services focused on FedRAMP High and IL5 initiatives, driving automation, platform reliability, and scalable deployment capabilities across engineering teams.

Responsibilities of the Senior Devops Engineer:

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Platform Services supporting FedRAMP High and IL5 environments.
• Own architectural decisions across centralized platform APIs, reusable CI/CD components, deployment workflows, and automated service onboarding capabilities.
• Lead the modernization of manual release and promotion processes through automated, policy-driven delivery pipelines.
• Build and establish "golden path" deployment frameworks that enable engineering teams to rapidly and reliably deploy applications onto the platform.
• Develop standards for deployment validation, operational readiness, audit compliance, change control, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to align platform capabilities, resolve dependencies, and drive technical decision-making.
• Lead architecture and design reviews focused on security, compliance, observability, reliability, and operational ownership.

Qualifications of the Senior Devops Engineer:

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related disciplines.
• Strong software engineering foundation with object-oriented programming experience in Python, Go, Ruby, Java, or similar languages prior to transitioning into DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, deployment orchestration, and cloud-native application platforms.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code solutions, and platform automation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations.
• Proven experience building deployment platforms, self-service developer experiences, and standardized engineering workflows.
• Expertise in deployment validation, observability, incident response, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, GovCloud, FIPS, or other highly regulated environments is highly preferred.
• Experience with centralized platform APIs, artifact promotion, deployment control planes, progressive delivery, or service onboarding automation is preferred.

Compensation for the Senior Devops Engineer includes:

• Salary range: $150,000 - $180,000
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and PTO
• Remote work flexibility

This job opens for applications on 09/02/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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