DevOps Engineer

Sprezzatura is a mission-driven, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business specializing in secure, scalable, and human-centered digital solutions for government transformation. The DevOps Engineer will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform services supporting the VA.gov Platform, while improving scalability, reliability, observability, security, and developer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting VA.gov Platform
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, libraries, and automation that can be leveraged across multiple engineering teams
• Improve platform scalability, resiliency, reliability, and operational efficiency
• Contribute to internal platform capabilities that improve the overall developer experience
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt)
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Jenkins, or similar technologies
• Participate in business-hours support rotation and production on-call responsibilities
• Troubleshoot production infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, deployment failures, and cloud services
• Build infrastructure that meets security, availability, and performance requirements
• Collaborate with security engineers to continuously improve Platform's security posture

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Required)
• • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• • Bachelor's Degree
• • 3-5 years' experience as a DevOps Engineer
• • Hands-on production experience with AWS as a primary cloud provider
• • Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes (Amazon EKS or equivalent)
• • Strong proficiency with Terraform (Terragrunt preferred)
• • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms
• • Strong Linux systems administration and shell scripting experience
• • Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, and container networking
• • Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• • Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure and distributed systems
• • Experience participating in production support and on-call rotations
• • Ability to work effectively with engineering teams and government stakeholders