DevOps Engineering Manager (D.C. Area)

Legion delivers secure, reliable AI systems that work alongside people tackling critical challenges. Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems to unlock data, accelerate workflows, and strengthen mission-critical platforms. We optimize—not replace—existing workflows, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability. With collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we build intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability at the edge and across enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps, DevSecOps, and Forward Deployed Engineers.
  • Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.
  • Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.
  • Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.
• Deployment Operations & Reliability
  • Lead the Deployment Engineering team in executing customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support.
  • Oversee operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.
  • Coordinate cross-functional activities for deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations.
  • Serve as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues.
  • Drive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience.
  • Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.
  • Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards for velocity, resiliency, and control.
• Deployment Architecture & Standards
  • Guide the development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures.
  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are deployable, supportable, and maintainable.
  • Drive standardization and automation efforts to improve scalability and reduce operational burden.
• Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
  • Lead the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities.
  • Partner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to support product roadmap execution and operational requirements.
• Customer Engagement
  • Engage directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation activities.
  • Support mission-critical deployments and operational troubleshooting.
  • Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders.
  • Represent Legion in technical discussions involving deployment architecture, operational readiness, and platform sustainment.
• Deployment Engineering

  The Deployment Engineering team operationalizes Legion's software across customer environments, including enterprise cloud, disconnected, and air-gapped tactical systems. The team partners with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Customer Success to ensure systems remain operationally effective throughout their lifecycle. Success means delivering resilient deployments, maintaining operational readiness, accelerating upgrade velocity, reducing deployment burden through automation, and enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that operate reliably in real-world environments.

Requirements

• Required
  • 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, deployment engineering, or related disciplines.
  • 2+ years of experience leading technical teams.
  • Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments.
  • Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements.
  • Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production environments.
  • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  • Experience operating customer-facing production systems.
  • Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience.
  • Experience managing operational incidents and production outages.
  • Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders.
• Preferred
  • Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or data-intensive software platforms.
  • Experience delivering software to disconnected tactical edge environments.

What Success Looks Like

• Legion deployments are resilient, predictable, and operationally ready.
• Customer environments remain healthy across cloud, classified, air-gapped, and edge deployments.
• Software upgrades are delivered rapidly and consistently across the deployment fleet.
• Deployment timelines and support burden decrease through automation and standardization.
• Customer outages are minimized and resolved quickly when they occur.
• Product teams move faster because deployment infrastructure is dependable and scalable.
• New platform capabilities can be operationalized rapidly without creating long-term sustainment burden.
• Legion scales operational deployments without proportional growth in deployment engineering headcount.
• Customers trust Legion to operate in environments where connectivity is unavailable, degraded, intermittent, or operationally risky.

Pay

$200,000 - $280,000 USD