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Salary: USD 200,000 - 240,000 / annual
Legion is seeking a DevOps Engineering Manager to lead a team of DevOps, DevSecOps, and Deployment Engineers in the Washington, DC area. This role combines team leadership with hands-on technical execution, managing deployment operations across Legion's customer environments—ranging from enterprise cloud deployments to disconnected, air-gapped tactical systems.
You will lead and mentor a team of engineers, establishing DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence. You'll oversee deployment operations and reliability across Legion customer environments, serving as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues. The role includes 25% embedded time with customers, working independently in classified or constrained environments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the Deployment Engineering team's execution of customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support
- Overseeing operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across customer environments
- Coordinating cross-functional activities for deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations
- Guiding development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures
- Leading the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities
- Engaging directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation
- Driving continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience
The Deployment Engineering team bridges product development and operational reality, ensuring Legion systems remain operationally effective throughout their lifecycle across cloud, on-premises, classified, air-gapped, and edge environments. Success means delivering resilient customer deployments, maintaining operational readiness, accelerating upgrade velocity, reducing deployment burden through automation, and enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that operate reliably in real-world environments.
REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, site reliability engineering, deployment engineering, or related disciplines
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams
- Experience supporting U.S. Government defense or intelligence environments
- Familiarity with RMF, STIGs, accreditation processes, and security hardening requirements
- Strong experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production environments
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience operating customer-facing production systems
- Strong Linux systems administration and networking experience
- Experience managing operational incidents and production outages
- Ability to lead technical execution while remaining hands-on
- Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with customer technical stakeholders
- ACTIVE Top Secret (TS) clearance from U.S. Department of Defense or Intelligence, and eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)
- U.S. citizenship required due to government contract requirements
Preferred:
- Experience supporting AI, machine learning, or data-intensive software platforms
- Experience delivering software to disconnected tactical edge environments
