Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer (Federal) — Kubernetes & CI/CD

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

Job summary

C3 AI in Tysons, VA is seeking a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer - Federal to lead deployments of the C3 Agentic AI Platform into federal environments, from architecture through production handoff with a focus on security and reliability.

US citizenship and an active Secret clearance or higher are required; TS/SCI or higher is preferred. Travel to customer sites up to 50%, primarily in the DC area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM or comparable area.
• Active Secret clearance or higher; TS/SCI or higher preferred; CI or Full-Scope polygraph preferred.
• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure roles.
• Experience deploying, managing and operating scalable Kubernetes in AWS/Azure; on-prem preferred.
• Hands-on administration of Kubernetes distributions (AKS, EKS, GKE, etc.).
• Terraform and Helm for deployment; Ansible for config management; CI/CD tooling experience.
• Linux, networking, and databases; Python or Bash scripting.

Responsibilities

• Lead federal deployments end to end from requirements to handoff to operations.
• Design installations meeting federal security requirements (air-gapped, disconnected networks).
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters with Terraform and Helm.
• Lead scripting and automation (Ansible, Bash, Python).
• Set up CI/CD pipelines and artifact repositories.
• Establish monitoring and alerting for deployed systems.
• Deliver root cause analyses and postmortems; ensure uptime and SLAs.
• Collaborate with Services, Engineering, and Platform operations; write runbooks.
• Act as technical contact for customer engineering teams; travel up to 50% (DC area).

Skills

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Communication

Customer-facing

Initiative

Independent working

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE)

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitLab CI

Argo CD

Nexus/Artifactory

Job description

C3 AI in Tysons, VA is seeking a Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer - Federal to lead deployments of the C3 Agentic AI Platform into federal environments, from architecture through production handoff with a focus on security and reliability.

US citizenship and an active Secret clearance or higher are required; TS/SCI or higher is preferred. Travel to customer sites up to 50%, primarily in the DC area.