Sr. DevOps Engineer

Appian•McLean, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Appian is seeking an elite technical leader with an active Top Secret clearance to join our Federal DevOps Engineering team. This role focuses on protecting and optimizing mission-critical public sector systems by scaling complex cloud infrastructure, engineering robust automated systems, and serving as a trusted advisor to federal agencies. The Federal DevOps Engineering team works closely with government agencies to ensure their automated workflows are resilient, securely scaled, and continuously optimized. This is an on-site position at our McLean HQ, requiring 4-5 days per week of in-person collaboration.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen holding an active Top Secret government security clearance (or higher) with the absolute ability to maintain this level of clearance.
Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
3–5 years of professional experience as an expert IT systems administrator building, maintaining, scripting, patching, and managing enterprise hosts, databases, and interconnected cloud networks.
Must possess an active CompTIA Security+ certification or be willing to successfully complete the certification directly following onboarding.

Nice To Haves

Proven, hands-on experience administering, managing, and troubleshooting an on-premise installation of an Appian environment or similar enterprise process engine.
Advanced, practical exposure to container orchestration and modern microservice deployments using Kubernetes.
Experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

Lead Enterprise Cloud Scaling: Act as the technical authority overseeing the installation, operation, management, and global scaling of the Appian platform across federal customer environments.
Architect Infrastructure & Systems: Leverage senior-level systems administration expertise (Linux, Windows) to deploy and scale solutions across major IaaS Solutions such as AWS, Google Compute Engine, or Microsoft Azure.
Automate Security & Operations: Champion technical efficiency by utilizing advanced programming and scripting skills (BASH, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby) to automate patching, host maintenance, and configuration management.
Govern Relational Data Tiering: Administer, tune, and optimize critical relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) to support heavy enterprise transaction volumes.
Advise Executive Stakeholders: Serve as a trusted advisor to federal clients, delivering exceptional customer interaction (verbal, written, and face-to-face) to align platform capabilities with agency mission goals.
Manage Hybrid Installations: Guide agencies through complex engineering requirements for both highly secure cloud ecosystems and sophisticated, custom on-premise installations.