DevOps Engineer

On-Site Bethesda, MD | Permanent Placement | 130-150k Base Salary Required Skills & Experience• 5-8 years preferred• Multi-cloud Kubernetes exp (AKS/GKE)o Someone with a CKA• CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)o If someone is a rockstar but has experience with another CICD they might do it but someone that has built pipelines and several of them• Backstage exp• Argo Workflow – plus• Distributed data ops: Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch—tuning, backup/restore, DR• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo• Platform dev: Go, Node.js, C#/.NETJob Description• Own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE—design cluster topology, networking, RBAC, and policies for secure, scalable, cost-efficient operation.• Build and evolve the Internal Developer Platform with Backstage—service catalog, golden-path templates, scorecards, and self-service scaffolding to standardize app onboarding.• Engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions—pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and artifact provenance.• Orchestrate batch/data workflows with Argo Workflows (not CI/CD)—multi-tenant DAGs, resource quotas, artifact/versioning strategy, and guardrails.• Operate and tune stateful services—Kafka, CockroachDB (Postgres), Couchbase, Elasticsearch—including capacity planning, replication, backup/restore, and DR.• Establish end-to-end observability—Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Grafana Tempo tracing, SLOs/error budgets, actionable alerting, and on-call runbooks.• Build platform tooling & automation in Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET—CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations that improve developer experience.• Drive security, compliance, and reliability practices—image/signing & SBOMs, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.