DevOps Engineer
Description
Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our high-performing team supporting the design, build, maintain, and enhance Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines using containerization and Kubernetes technologies. This role supports software development and deployment across multiple environments, drives automation initiatives, and ensures the reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of applications and machine learning solutions.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
- Develop and manage containerized deployment workflows using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automate software builds, testing, and deployments across multiple environments.
- Create and maintain automation scripts using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Integrate DevSecOps practices and security controls into software delivery pipelines.
- Support machine learning workflows, MLOps platforms, and AI/ML infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex software, infrastructure, and deployment issues.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities to support application reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams within an Agile environment to improve delivery processes.
- Maintain source control workflows using Git-based platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and document infrastructure, pipelines, and operational procedures
This position requires an active Top Secret (TS) clearance and the ability to obtain SCI access with a CI polygraph. This position is on-site in Chantilly, VA.
Required Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience). Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience
- Experience developing and supporting custom, in-house applications using modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Expertise in AI, generative AI, and orchestration across multiple models and modalities, including reasoning, perception, memory, and tool execution.
- Experience implementing temporal, spatial, geographic, quantitative, and computer vision AI capabilities.
- Proficiency in named entity recognition (NER), contextual entity extraction and resolution, multi-step retrieval, and structured output generation with traceable source citations.
- Experience designing and optimizing automated ETL pipelines, including complex data parsing, scheduling, and schema-aligned ingestion and normalization of structured and unstructured data.
- Experience integrating and orchestrating vector, graph, and relational databases, with knowledge of Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), data provenance, and end-to-end lineage tracking.
- Experience supporting air-gapped, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including locally hosted GPU servers, hyperconverged nodes, and multitenant Cross Domain Solutions (CDS).
- Proficiency in container orchestration and distributed systems management using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience developing user interfaces, backend services, and middleware using technologies such as TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, Lance Graph, PostgreSQL, and Temporal.io.
- Experience integrating reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI/GenAI services into enterprise applications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience implementing DevSecOps and secure software delivery practices.
- Experience supporting machine learning workflows, MLOps platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Experience with source control platforms such as Git, GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineering teams.
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Security, or DevOps certifications).
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
Skills
- ABAC
- Agile
- AI
- Ansible
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- Bitbucket
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudFormation
- Computer Vision
- Containerization
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- ETL
- FastAPI
- Generative AI
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- GPU
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Machine Learning
- MLOps
- Observability
- PostgreSQL
- PowerShell
- Python
- RDBMS
- React
- Terraform
- TypeScript
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- Are you Legally Authorized to Work in the United States? In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire optional
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AND INITIAL EACH PARAGRAPH BEFORE SIGNING I have disclosed all information that is relevant and should be considered applicable to my candidacy for employment. optional
- I understand, where permissible under applicable state and local law, I may be subject to a pre-employment drug screen and background check after receiving a conditional offer of employment to investigate my criminal background [, driving record][, credit history] and other matters related to my suitability for employment. optional
- I hereby certify that the information given by me is true in all respects. I authorize AnaVation, LLC and its representatives to contact my prior employers and all others (with the exception of my current employer, only if I have marked “May we contact?” of this application as “No”) for the purpose of verification of the information I have supplied and release same from any liability resulting from the information released. I authorize employers, schools and other persons named on this application to provide any information or transcripts requested. optional
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- I hereby certify that, if employed, my employment with AnaVation, LLC will not conflict with, or result in the violation of, breach of, or default under, any contract, agreement or understanding that I am a party to or am bound by, other than those I have disclosed in this application, if any. optional
- I hereby certify that, if employed, my employment with AnaVation, LLC will not violate any non-solicitation, non-competition or other similar covenant or agreement I have with any of my prior employers, other than those I have disclosed in this application, if any. optional
- I hereby certify that, if employed, I will report to my supervisor, a representative of HR or other member of management, if I am ever harassed or discriminated against by someone in the company or if I ever become aware of any unethical behavior by any employee. optional
- I expressly understand and agree that, if employed, my employment, having no specified term, is based upon mutual consent and may be terminated at will, with or without cause, by either party (AnaVation, LLC or me) without prior notice to the other, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Additionally, I understand that no representation, whether oral or written, by any representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC, at any time, can constitute an implied or express contract of employment. I further understand no representative or agent of AnaVation, LLC has the authority to enter into an agreement for employment for any specified period of time or to make any change in any policy, procedure, benefit or other terms or condition of employment other than in a document signed by the Chief Executive Officer or an authorized representative. optional
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