Staff GovOps Systems Engineer - GovCloud & FedRAMP

Databricks; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Systems Development Engineer (GovOps) to join our Cleared Engineering team in McLean, VA. You will advance platform reliability across GovCloud, FedRAMP High, and air-gapped environments, bridging the gap between uncleared core teams and secure facilities.

In this staff role, you will architect long-term system stability, drive tooling, and lead incident response under high pressure while ensuring compliance with federal security benchmarks.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in Systems Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or related ops roles.
• Deep Linux/Unix internals, networking, and distributed systems expertise.
• Hands-on Python, Bash, Go, or Java with scripting and debugging skills.
• Experience with public or federal cloud boundaries (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP).
• Knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• 3+ years of technical writing—status reports, incident summaries, escalations.
• Ability to work on-site at McLean, VA SCIF, including on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Architect high-side platform reliability across Compute, Networking, Storage, and OS domains.
• Bridge uncleared core teams with secure facilities to ensure precise communication.
• Drive fleet-wide tooling and automation to improve incident response and ops efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product and Core Engineering to root-cause defects and influence roadmaps.
• Lead critical incident response with structured triage and senior stakeholder communications.
• Maintain and evolve compliance guardrails inside secure facilities (FedRAMP High, ITAR/IL5).

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Linux internals

Python

Go

Bash

Java

Cloud concepts

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Systems Development Engineer (GovOps) to join our Cleared Engineering team in McLean, VA. You will advance platform reliability across GovCloud, FedRAMP High, and air-gapped environments, bridging the gap between uncleared core teams and secure facilities.

In this staff role, you will architect long-term system stability, drive tooling, and lead incident response under high pressure while ensuring compliance with federal security benchmarks.