Staff DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Code for America is looking for a talented Staff DevOps Engineer who will play a critical role in transforming compliance from a constraint into an operational strength. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, compliance-driven environments and is passionate about Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and enabling developer velocity through automation and best practices.

What You Will Do

Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for secure, automated deployments, implement, maintain, and monitor containerized applications, automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and governance with reusable modules and policy-as-code, and manage and monitor infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost optimization.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This position is a perfect fit for someone who stays current in a fast-moving field, bringing lessons from new tools, frameworks, or past experience to bear on today's problems, and adjusting course when the landscape shifts.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
• 3–5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to provision and manage cloud-based deployments
• Deep experience with AWS (CloudFormation, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, RDS)
• Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills in matrixed organizations
• Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a plus
• Proficient in GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, NIST)

Benefits

• Laptop provided
• One-time $700 payment for remote environment setup
• Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month
• $500 annual stipend towards professional development
• Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000
• 100% employer match on the first 3% of 401k contributions
• 50% employer match on contributions between 3% and 5% for employees with 3+ years of service
• At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage
• A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage
• 14 paid holidays
• Org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day
• Up to 96 hours of paid sick time annually
• 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave
• 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service