Senior DevOps Engineer — Secure Federal Platform Lead TS/SCI

Metaphase-Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MetaPhase Consulting in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead platform engineering and automation for Federal mission services. You will drive secure, automated pipelines, IaC practices, and observability across cloud environments.

The role requires hands-on leadership with 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, plus active TS/SCI eligibility. Collaboration with software, SRE, and security teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, SRE, or related field.
• Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI access; U.S. Citizenship required.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, IS, engineering, math, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead scalable CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Implement secure infrastructure as code and platform automation for resilient cloud and hybrid environments.
• Embed Zero Trust, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy checks into delivery workflows.
• Build self-service developer platforms and container runtimes + orchestration frameworks.
• Establish observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and SLOs.
• Lead incident-response improvements with runbooks and root-cause analysis.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Git-based workflows

Infrastructure as code

Containers

Kubernetes

Zero Trust security

Secrets management

Vulnerability remediation

Observability

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / information systems / engineering / mathematics

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Docker

ArgoCD

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

MetaPhase Consulting in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead platform engineering and automation for Federal mission services. You will drive secure, automated pipelines, IaC practices, and observability across cloud environments.

The role requires hands-on leadership with 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, plus active TS/SCI eligibility. Collaboration with software, SRE, and security teams is essential.