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Code for America · 13 hours ago

Staff DevOps Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$129K/yr - $158K/yr

3+ years exp

Code for America believes in transforming government services through technology, and they are seeking a talented Staff DevOps Engineer. This role will focus on designing, automating, and scaling secure cloud infrastructure to support containerized and AI-powered applications while ensuring compliance and operational strength.

LegalLegal TechNon ProfitOpen Source

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

AWSCI/CDInfrastructure-as-CodeDockerKubernetesGitHub ActionsCompliance frameworksScriptingCommunication skillsDocumentation skillsCollaboration skills

Required

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

Proficient in GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes

Preferred

Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Aptible (deployment or compliance automation experience)

AI/ML infrastructure (GPU orchestration, model serving, or AI workflows)

Scripting in Ruby, Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tool development

Company

Code for America

Glassdoor3.3

Government can work for the people, by the people, in the digital age. Let’s make it work for everyone.

Founded in 2009

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://www.codeforamerica.org/

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