Junior Devops Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

We are seeking an outgoing, strategic Senior DevOps / MLOps Engineer who brings deep expertise in modern software engineering, system architecture, and DevOps practices. This role requires someone who thrives in both big-picture enterprise planning and hands-on project-level solution design, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment across the organization.

The perfect candidate is a full stack engineer, passionate about designing robust software solutions, coaching engineering teams, modernizing platforms, and driving DevOps maturity. This candidate will also be a senior leader providing guidance across the company. The candidate must exhibit leadership and understand multiple solution architectures and be able to establish and articulate the vision behind an enterprise architecture solution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Senior DevOps / MLOps Engineer to design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, and highly reliable delivery pipelines supporting both traditional software systems and AI/ML solutions for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
• This is a hands-on, highly technical role focused on automation, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and production operations. The successful candidate will ensure that development, testing, and deployment processes are seamless, repeatable, resilient, and compliant across mission-critical systems.

Required Qualifications

Education and Work Experience:

CI/CD and Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for both software applications and AI/ML models, supporting automated build, test, validation, and deployment workflows.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using infrastructure-as-code and modern DevOps tooling.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Manage, optimize, and secure cloud environments, ensuring efficient use of compute, storage, and networking resources.
• Design, deploy, and maintain containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and related orchestration technologies.
• Ensure seamless integration across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

Operations & Reliability

• Monitor system performance, availability, reliability, and security; proactively identify and remediate issues.
• Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and health-check strategies to support operational visibility and incident response.
• Support operational readiness and reliability improvement initiatives for production systems.

MLOps Enablement

• Collaborate closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and security teams to operationalize models and applications.
• Support MLOps workflows including model deployment automation, versioning, rollback strategies, and runtime monitoring.

Documentation & Leadership

• Document infrastructure, pipelines, and operational procedures to ensure maintainability and auditability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior DevOps and MLOps engineers.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or MLOps roles supporting production systems.
• Strong experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines for software and data/ML workloads.

Technical Skills

• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms, with strong preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment tooling.
• Strong understanding of system monitoring, site reliability engineering principles, and security best practices.
• Proven experience operating in regulated, high-availability, or mission-critical environments.

Corporate Values Alignment:

• Passionate - Demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for the work, the company and client's mission, and the impact it has on others. Enthusiasm, dedication, team motivation, continuous learning, and ownership.
• Selfless - Demonstrates a willingness to put the needs of others, the team, and the company above personal interest. Helping others, knowledge sharing, teamwork, inclusivity, and humility.
• Trailblazer - Leads the way with a pioneering spirit, setting new standards, and creating paths for others to follow. Leading by example, fostering innovation, mentoring, owning new ventures, and encouraging experimentation.
• Impactful - Strives to make a meaningful and measurable difference that contributes positively to the company, clients, and the community. Focus on results, performance tracking, community contributions, empowerment, and improvement.
• Innovative - Striving to think creatively, improve processes, and bring new ideas to life that drive business and client success. Staying current with industry trends and activities to ensure Impyrian stays ahead of competitors and exceeds client expectations. Proactive idea generation, calculated risk-taking, collaboration, growth mindset, and tech adoption.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged Periods of Computer Use: Must be able to work on a computer for extended periods, including frequent use of a keyboard, mouse, and viewing of a computer monitor.
• Sitting and Desk Work: The role involves prolonged periods of sitting at a workstation. Standing or walking intermittently may also be required.
• Verbal and Written Communication: Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively in person, over the phone, and via virtual collaboration tools.
• Hearing: Ability to listen to and participate in meetings, calls, and discussions in person or through audio/video conferencing platforms.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle objects, tools, or controls with precision, such as configuring equipment or working with technical devices.
• Occasional Lifting: Ability to lift and move equipment or materials weighing up to 25 pounds (e.g., laptops, hardware components) if necessary.
• Mobility: Must be able to move between workstations or offices as required. This is generally minimal in remote or hybrid environments.
• Visual Acuity: Must have near and peripheral vision to work effectively with screens, tools, and documentation, and to identify details in code or configurations.
• Work Environment: Primarily sedentary and performed in a standard office environment, either on-site, remote, or hybrid. May occasionally involve visiting data centers or technical environments.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compensation and Benefits

Disclaimer on Compensation Range

The compensation range listed for this position is provided in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws and reflects the employer’s good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. This range does not represent a specific offer and should not be interpreted as a guarantee of compensation.

Actual salary offers may fall outside of the posted range and will depend on a variety of factors, including but not limited to:

• Relevant skills and experience
• Education and certifications
• Market and business needs
• Internal pay equity
• Location and cost of living

We encourage all interested applicants to apply, regardless of whether their desired compensation aligns perfectly with the posted range.

• Salary Range: $ 130,000.00 - $180,000.00

Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• 401k plan including company match
• Paid federal holidays

• Paid Time Off or Vacation/Sick time *depending upon contract
• Parental leave
• Bereavement leave
• Education/Training reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Other voluntary benefits available