Senior Platform DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes & Hybrid Infra

Talanto; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful Mission & Impact

Equity Ownership

Unlimited PTO + holidays

Hybrid work environment

401(k) with match

Comprehensive health & wellness

Job summary

Talanto is seeking a talented Platform/DevOps engineer to scale our AI platform across on‑premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will design infrastructure and deploy software to support our US Government customers, leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

The role requires collaboration with diverse teams to ensure reliability, security, and performance in fast-paced settings. Based in Reston, VA, this hybrid role offers meaningful impact, competitive rewards, and opportunities to

Qualifications

• Active U.S. DoD Top Secret clearance required.
• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps for large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of Kubernetes experience with multi-tenancy, RBAC, scheduling and autoscaling.
• Strong Kubernetes networking knowledge: CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS, NetworkPolicy.
• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes (Postgres, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).
• Hybrid on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI); security standards (FIPS, CVE, FedRAMP, STIGs).

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and operate highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms across cloud and on-premises.
• Own the full networking stack — CNI, service mesh, ingress, DNS, load balancing, and network policy.
• Own database operations for production Postgres and OpenSearch clusters—availability, performance, backup, and recovery.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Lead incident response and post-mortems for platform-level failures; implement systemic fixes.
• Proactively identify and remediate scalability and reliability risks across the platform.

Skills

DoD Top Secret clearance

Platform/Infra/DevOps

Kubernetes

Linux networking

Security standards

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Calico/Cilium

Istio/Traefik

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI)

Job description

Talanto is seeking a talented Platform/DevOps engineer to scale our AI platform across on‑premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. You will design infrastructure and deploy software to support our US Government customers, leveraging Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible.

The role requires collaboration with diverse teams to ensure reliability, security, and performance in fast-paced settings. Based in Reston, VA, this hybrid role offers meaningful impact, competitive rewards, and opportunities to