Senior DevOps Engineer

JOB IS 5 DAYS ON SITE IN BETHESDA OR BOCA RATON FL

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Position Summary

Our client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support secure, reliable, and cost-efficient platform operations. This role will focus on multi-cloud Kubernetes environments, internal developer platforms, CI/CD, data workflows, stateful services, observability, platform automation, and security practices. The position is based in Bethesda, MD, or Boca Raton, FL.

Key Responsibilities

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• Own multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms on Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE, including cluster topology, networking, RBAC, and security policies.
  
• Build and evolve an internal developer platform with Backstage, including service catalogs, golden-path templates, scorecards, and self-service scaffolding.
  
• Engineer CI/CD at scale using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including pipelines-as-code, environment promotion, secrets management, and artifact provenance.
  
• Orchestrate batch and data workflows with Argo Workflows, including multi-tenant DAGs, resource quotas, artifact and versioning strategies, and operational guardrails.
  
• Operate and tune Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch, with responsibility for capacity planning, replication, backup and restore, and disaster recovery.
  
• Establish end-to-end observability using Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and Grafana Tempo tracing.
  
• Define and support SLOs, error budgets, actionable alerting, and on-call runbooks.
  
• Build platform tooling and automation in Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET, including CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations.
  
• Drive security, compliance, and reliability practices, including image signing, SBOMs, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.
  
• Collaborate with teams developing in C#/.NET, Go, and Node.js.
  
• Identify practical AI use cases and integrate tools that deliver measurable impact.
  

Required Qualifications

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• Experience with multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms, including AKS and GKE.
  
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
  
• Experience with Backstage or comparable internal developer platform capabilities, including service catalogs, reusable templates, and self-service workflows.
  
• Experience with Argo Workflows for batch or data workflow orchestration.
  
• Experience operating distributed and stateful data services, including Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch.
  
• Experience with observability practices and tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, and Tempo.
  
• Platform development experience with Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET.
  
• Knowledge of security, compliance, reliability, secrets management, network policies, least privilege, cost monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.
  

Preferred Qualifications

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• 5-8 years of relevant experience.
  
• Experience tuning Kafka, CockroachDB, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch.
  
• Experience with backup and restore strategies and disaster recovery for distributed data services.
  
• Experience designing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient Kubernetes environments.
  
• Experience developing platform tooling such as CLIs, controllers/operators, APIs, and integrations.
  

Why This Opportunity May Be Appealing

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• Contribute to the evolution of a practical internal developer platform with reusable templates and self-service capabilities.
  
• Work across Azure AKS and Google Cloud GKE in a multi-cloud environment.
  
• Help shape CI/CD, data workflow orchestration, observability, security, and reliability practices.
  
• Build automation and developer-focused tooling across Go, Node.js, and C#/.NET.
  
• Participate in practical AI initiatives focused on measurable impact.
  

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

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