DevOps Engineer (Washington DC-Baltimore Area)

DevOps Engineer, TS/SCI Full Scope Poly, Series B Defense AI, GovCloud

Location: United States

Workplace type: Remote -

Employment type: Full time

Description:

Series B defense AI startup | Profitable since 2021 | $3M to $80M ARR in 3 years | Backed by General Catalyst, Point72, DFJ Growth, Felicis and Costanoa

Requirement before you apply: an active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph. Applications without one can’t be considered.

Remote role with 40 to 50% on site at government customer sites in DC or San Diego. You’ll need to live in, or relocate to, one of those areas. Relocation support is provided.

The company

A 180 person defense AI company whose agentic AI platform is deployed across 125+ US national security missions. It has raised $87M and has been profitable for years. The engineering culture is small, flat and high ownership, and the CTO meets every engineering hire.

The role

They’re hiring 3 DevOps Engineers to join a team of six on the backend platform team. These are generalist roles for engineers who want ownership.

What you’ll do

• Build and own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitHub Actions)
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform across commercial and high side environments
• Harden and deploy software in AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP and behind VPN environments
• Own platform health, scaling and planning
• Work on site with government customers in DC or San Diego

What you’ll need

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
• US citizenship
• 4 to 10 years in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering (not pure IT)
• Strong AWS, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes skills
• Experience in non-standard environments such as GovCloud, FedRAMP, high side or behind VPN
• Willingness to spend 40 to 50% of your time on site in DC or San Diego
• Nice to have: CS degree, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, Python, Pulumi, Datadog

The package

• $170K to $240K base plus competitive equity
• Relocation support for DC or San Diego
• Unlimited PTO, fully paid parental leave and 401(k) match
• Child and pet care reimbursement during work travel

Apply here or message me directly for a confidential chat.