Senior DevOps Engineer � Private Cloud Edition (PCE)

About the role

JTSi is a federal government consulting firm providing technical services to the Federal Government, including DoD and civilian agencies. The company values honesty, integrity, and long‑term professional relationships. This is a Senior DevOps Engineer Private Cloud Edition (PCE) position. Must be a US Citizen and only hold US citizenship (no dual citizenship). Candidate can be remote but if within 30 miles of the Herndon office will be asked to be on site 3 days a week (may increase based on business needs). Possible conversion to hire after 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture & Provisioning: Lead design, deployment, configuration, and maintenance of client solutions on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with focus on high availability, scalability, security; architect and implement standardized reusable infrastructure patterns; own and enhance automated provisioning processes; partner with development, QA, and platform teams to plan and provision environments for testing, performance, release.
• Operations, Reliability & Optimization: Serve as escalation point for complex operational issues, performing advanced troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, network layers; design and implement strategies for reliability, capacity planning, performance tuning, cost optimization across multi‑cloud; drive adoption of SRE/DevOps practices such as error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, post incident reviews; ensure follow‑through on corrective actions; implement and refine continuous monitoring and observability solutions.
• Security, Compliance & Governance: Work closely with security, compliance, governance teams to design, implement, maintain robust security architectures and controls in cloud environments; ensure adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements relevant to U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers; lead regular security reviews, audits of access controls, configuration baselines, infrastructure policies; drive remediation and hardening initiatives; champion secure‑by‑design and DevSecOps practices within CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Automation, Tooling & CI/CD: Design and develop advanced automation frameworks, scripts, tools to eliminate manual work, reduce risk, improve operational efficiency; architect, implement, maintain CI/CD pipelines for code deployment, configuration management, infrastructure as code, including governance and quality gates; evaluate, recommend, integrate new DevOps tools, platforms, technologies that improve velocity, reliability, security of deployments; ensure consistency, standardization, best practices in use of configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) across teams and environments.
• Technical Leadership, Collaboration & Documentation: Act as technical leader and SME for DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, automation within team and across adjacent teams; mentor and coach junior and mid‑level engineers; lead cross‑functional initiatives with developers, QA engineers, system administrators, security, operations teams; produce and maintain high‑quality documentation for reference architectures, runbooks, SOPs, troubleshooting guides; influence and help define team standards, best practices, roadmaps for DevOps and cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Substantial hands‑on experience (typically 7+ years) in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Proven track record deploying, managing, optimizing solutions on public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong expertise with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tooling.
• Advanced experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates).
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles and practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, continuous monitoring, incident management.
• Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack