Senior Federal DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes, Security & Cloud

C3.ai, Inc.; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

C3 AI in Tysons, VA seeks a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer – Federal to lead deployments of the C3 Agentic AI Platform into federal environments, from architecture through production handoff, in coordination with Services and Engineering teams. This role requires US Citizenship and an active Secret clearance or higher; TS/SCI preferred.

Travel up to 50% (DC area). You will design on-prem, disconnected, and air-gapped deployments, build CI/CD pipelines, and automate with Terraform, Ansible, Helm,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or equivalent
• Active Secret clearance or higher; TS/SCI or higher preferred; CI or Full-Scope polygraph preferred
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience deploying, managing, and operating scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS/Azure; on-premises deployment experience preferred
• Hands-on administration of Kubernetes distributions (AKS/EKS/GKE/etc)
• Experience deploying Kubernetes with Terraform
• Experience packaging and deploying containerized apps with Helm
• Configuration management and automation with Ansible; Puppet a plus
• Experience with CI/CD and artifact tooling (GitLab CI, Argo CD, Nexus, Artifactory)
• Expertise in Linux, networking, and database concepts
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP including GovCloud/Azure Government
• Experience in Python or Bash for automation
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Customer-facing experience leading deployments or technical engagements

Responsibilities

• Lead federal customer deployments of the C3 AI Platform end to end from requirements to handoff
• Design and implement installations meeting federal access and security requirements
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters using Terraform and Helm
• Lead scripting/automation with Ansible, Bash, Python
• Set up CI/CD pipelines and artifact repositories
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting for deployed systems
• Deliver root cause analyses and postmortems
• Ensure uptime and meet SLAs
• Work with Services, Engineering and Platform operations teams
• Serve as technical point of contact for customer engineering teams
• Travel to customer sites up to 50% (DC area)

Skills

DevOps experience

SRE practices

Communication skills

Customer-facing experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE)

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Nexus

Artifactory

AWS

Azure

GCP

PostgreSQL

Cassandra

Job description

C3 AI in Tysons, VA seeks a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer – Federal to lead deployments of the C3 Agentic AI Platform into federal environments, from architecture through production handoff, in coordination with Services and Engineering teams. This role requires US Citizenship and an active Secret clearance or higher; TS/SCI preferred.

Travel up to 50% (DC area). You will design on-prem, disconnected, and air-gapped deployments, build CI/CD pipelines, and automate with Terraform, Ansible, Helm,