{"id":884830,"url":"https://alion.io/job/yurtsai-engineering-manager-devopsdevsecopssite-reliabilitydeployment-engineering-d-c-area","title":"Engineering Manager DevOps/DevSecOps/Site Reliability/Deployment Engineering (D.C. 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We don’t replace workflows-we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use.\nWith world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we’re building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises.\nWe’re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that’s secure, grounded, and built to work.\nDevOps Engineering Manager (DevOps/DevSecOps/Site Reliability/Deployment Engineering) (D.C. Area)\n***This position requires a US Department of Defense or Intelligence ACTIVETop Secret (TS) clearance and also beeligiblefor Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) - eligibility only needed for SCI clearance***\n***25% of time embedded with customers, working independently in classified or constrained environments***\n***Due to Government contract requirements, we are only able to hire US citizens***\nResponsibilities\nTeam Leadership\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Deployment Engineers.\nEstablish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.\nFoster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.\nCoordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.\nDrive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.\nDeployment Operations & Reliability\nIn addition to DevOps will lead the Deployment Engineering team's execution of customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support.\nOversee operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.\nCoordinate cross-functional activities required to support deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations.\nServe as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues.\nDrive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience.\nCoordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.\nLead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards that ensure deployed systems meet Legion's requirements for velocity, resiliency, and control.\nDeployment Architecture & Standards\nGuide the development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures across Legion environments.\nPartner with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are deployable, supportable, and maintainable.\nDrive standardization and automation efforts that improve scalability and reduce operational burden.\nPlatform & Infrastructure Engineering\nLead the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities.\nPartner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to support product roadmap execution and operational requirements.\nCustomer Engagement\nEngage directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation activities.\nSupport mission-critical deployments and operational troubleshooting when required.\nBuild trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders.\nRepresent Legion during technical discussions involving deployment architecture, operational readiness, and platform sustainment.\nDeployment Engineering\nThe Deployment Engineering team is responsible for operationalizing Legion's software across customer environments ranging from enterprise cloud deployments to disconnected and air-gapped tactical systems.\nThe Deployment Engineering Manager leads this function, partnering closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure Legion systems remain operationally effective throughout their lifecycle.\nThe team's mission is to ensure Legion capabilities can be deployed, upgraded, sustained, and scaled reliably across cloud, on-premises, classified, air-gapped, and edge environments. Deployment Engineering serves as the bridge between product development and operational reality, translating platform capabilities into repeatable deployment patterns and operational processes in support of customer outcomes.\nSuccess means delivering resilient customer deployments, maintaining operational readiness across the deployment fleet, accelerating upgrade velocity, reducing deployment and sustainment burden through automation, and enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that can be operated reliably in real-world environments.\nQualifications\nRequired\n7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, deployment engineering, or related disciplines.\n2+ years of experience leading technical teams.\nExperience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments.\nFamiliarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements.\nStrong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production environments.\nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.\nExperience operating customer-facing production systems.\nStrong Linux systems administration and networking experience.\nExperience managing operational incidents and production outages.\nAbility to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on.\nStrong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders.\nPreferred\nExperience supporting AI, machine learning, or data-intensive software platforms.\nExperience delivering software to disconnected tactical edge environments.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nLegion deployments are resilient, predictable, and operationally ready.\nCustomer environments remain healthy across cloud, classified, air-gapped, and edge deployments.\nSoftware upgrades are delivered rapidly and consistently across the deployment fleet.\nDeployment timelines and support burden decrease through automation and standardization.\nCustomer outages are minimized and resolved quickly when they occur.\nProduct teams move faster because deployment infrastructure is dependable and scalable.\nNew platform capabilities can be operationalized rapidly without creating long-term sustainment burden.\nLegion scales operational deployments without proportional growth in deployment engineering headcount.\nCustomers trust Legion to operate in environments where connectivity is unavailable, degraded, intermittent, or operationally risky.\nCompensation Information\n$200,000—$240,000 USD\nEqual Opportunity Statement\nLegion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7474,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["DevSecOps"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-14T03:26:28Z"}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.347,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":117,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:8","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":240000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/yurtsai-engineering-manager-devopsdevsecopssite-reliabilitydeployment-engineering-d-c-area","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/yurtsai-engineering-manager-devopsdevsecopssite-reliabilitydeployment-engineering-d-c-area.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T21:16:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3902,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1098,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}