Job Description:POSITION SUMMARYWe 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.
KEY 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
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS- 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
Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust background investigation (MBI or HBI). U.S. citizenship or permanent residency required.
BENEFITSAvyanna LLC offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off, and professional development support.
Required Skills:• Environment
• Religion
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud
• Support
• Development
• Github Actions
• Pipelines
• Investigation
• Azure DevOps
• Salary
• Ansible
• Compliance
• CI/CD
• Gitlab
• Government
• Metrics
• Azure
• Software Development
• DevOps
• Infrastructure
• AWS
• Information Technology
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Github
• Computer Science
• Security
• Docker
• Research
• Software
• Design
• Engineering
• Science
