Code for America

Staff DevOps Engineer

Code for America

full-time

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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