DevOps Engineer – Federal
Cognition
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington DC • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect, own, and maintain the end-to-end technical lifecycle of complex, mission-critical federal enterprise deployments and their environments.
- Work directly with customer engineering and GTM teams to define deployment scope, ensuring compliance with security controls and federal regulations.
- Provide technical depth on strategic deployments; serving as the trusted expert on deployment, security, and platform architecture.
- Contribute directly to the core product codebase to improve deployability, operability, and reliability across a variety of environments.
- Translate field learnings and customer pain points into actionable product direction: scope requirements, define solutions, and drive implementation.
- Build product extensions, integrations, and automation using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives to unblock deployments.
- Serve as the key technical and connective link between the Federal team and core infrastructure engineering teams.
- Handle escalated technical issues and provide architectural judgment requiring deep debugging and systems analysis.
Requirements
- Strong engineering foundation with a proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex, distributed systems.
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company.
- Direct experience in, implementing compliance and security controls required for federal or highly regulated environments.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases
- Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain
- Have operated cross-functionally—whether at a startup wearing multiple hats or by driving product/commercial thinking at a larger company
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonTypeScriptdistributed systemsdebuggingcompliance controlssecurity controlsplatform architectureproduct codebaseautomationAPIs
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcross-functional collaborationcommunicationcustomer focusstrategic thinkingtechnical judgmentadaptabilityattention to detailleadershipexcellence