
Staff DevOps Engineer
Code for America
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $128,945 - $157,850 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for secure, automated deployments
- Implement, maintain, and monitor containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS)
- Collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to ensure compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and NIST 800-53
- Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and governance with reusable modules and policy-as-code
- Manage and monitor infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost optimization
- Contribute to and enforce secure DevOps best practices (least privilege, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability scanning)
- Support platform integration for AI/ML workloads, container orchestration, and environment isolation
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 3–5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience
- Deep experience with AWS (CloudFormation, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, RDS)
- Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills in matrixed organizations
- Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a plus
- Proficient in GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Benefits
- holistic compensation and benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
CI/CDGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesAWSCloudFormationIAMECSEKSpolicy-as-code
Soft skills
communicationdocumentationcollaboration