Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote (AWS/Kubernetes)

OpenTalent; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent seeks a DevOps Engineer to join the VA.gov Platform Infrastructure Services Team, designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.

You will enable dozens of engineering teams to securely deliver digital services by providing scalable infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. This role requires reliability and collaboration with security teams.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status required.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• 10+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Hands-on AWS production experience.
• Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes (Amazon EKS or equivalent).
• Proficiency with Terraform (Terragrunt preferred).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar.
• Strong Linux systems administration and shell scripting.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and container networking.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Experience participating in production support and on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure for VA.gov Platform.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation across teams.
• Improve platform scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to internal platform capabilities to enhance developer experience.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins).
• Participate in business-hours support rotation and on-call responsibilities.
• Troubleshoot production infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, deployments, and cloud services.
• Build infrastructure meeting security, availability, and performance requirements.
• Collaborate with security engineers to improve Platform security posture.

Skills

Public Trust clearance

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo CD

Linux

Networking

Docker

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Jenkins

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Job description

OpenTalent seeks a DevOps Engineer to join the VA.gov Platform Infrastructure Services Team, designing, building, and operating cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.

You will enable dozens of engineering teams to securely deliver digital services by providing scalable infrastructure, automated deployment pipelines, observability, and developer tooling. This role requires reliability and collaboration with security teams.