DevOps Cloud Engineer | Herndon, VA (Hybrid, 2 days/week) | $140k-$165k + bonus
Our client is a global technology leader with a nearly 200 year history of engineering innovation, currently driving the shift toward a decarbonized, sustainable future across the marine and energy sectors. They're looking for a DevOps focused engineer to join their cloud application team and own deployment, operational reliability, and supporting infrastructure across a growing portfolio of cloud based applications.
This is a mid to senior level role built for someone who wants to shape how a modern engineering org ships, operates, and scales software, working across a Google Cloud and Kubernetes based environment with real production weight behind it, including large scale, data intensive systems in a high reliability industrial setting.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain deployment workflows for cloud applications running on Google Cloud
- Build and manage Kubernetes based deployment infrastructure with a focus on reliability, repeatability, and operational clarity
- Own and improve GitOps and continuous delivery processes using ArgoCD, Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support safe, efficient, observable software delivery
- Set up and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility across cloud hosted applications and services
- Manage and evolve cloud networking infrastructure to support secure, reliable application connectivity
- Build internal utilities and tooling to automate deployments and operational workflows, including for large scale or data intensive applications
- Partner closely with software engineers to improve deployability, observability, incident response, and operational maturity
- Contribute to infrastructure standards, deployment patterns, and platform best practices across the team
- Support production operations, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis when issues arise
What You Bring
- Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong hands on experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Strong hands on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Experience managing infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Experience with GitOps and application delivery using ArgoCD
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions
- Experience supporting cloud applications written primarily in Node.js, with some exposure to Go, Python, or Java
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational troubleshooting in cloud environments
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, service connectivity, access patterns, and infrastructure security fundamentals
- Ability to write automation scripts, utilities, and deployment tooling to improve team efficiency and reliability
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting large scale data or big data application deployments
- Experience improving developer workflows and internal platform tooling
- Familiarity with production operations in high reliability or industrial environments
- Experience with incident response, postmortems, and operational improvement practices
- Exposure to regulated or safety conscious industries
DevOps Cloud Engineer | Herndon, VA (Hybrid, 2 days/week) | $140k-$165k + bonus