DevOps Platform Engineer

Avyanna Technologies•Bethesda, MD

17h

About The Position

We are seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to architect and operate a scalable internal developer platform (IDP) for a federal IT program. This role drives platform reliability, developer experience, and operational consistency across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, leading a team responsible for the full platform lifecycle.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of IT engineering experience with 3+ years focused on platform or infrastructure engineering
Expert-level Kubernetes administration; experience with OpenShift or Rancher preferred
Strong IaC skills: Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible
Experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (ArgoCD, Flux)
Familiarity with federal IT standards: FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust background investigation (MBI or HBI). U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required.

Responsibilities

Architect and operate a centralized developer platform enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and observability
Design and maintain Kubernetes-based workload orchestration environments across hybrid cloud (on-prem + GovCloud)
Build and manage CI/CD toolchains (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton) supporting multiple application teams
Implement observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack) and establish SLIs, SLOs, and alerting standards
Lead platform onboarding for development teams; define and enforce platform engineering standards and runbooks
Partner with security and compliance teams to embed policy controls and audit logging within the platform
Capacity plan and optimize infrastructure spend across cloud services; manage platform roadmap and sprint planning