Application Support DevOps Engineer
$129,000–$193,500 year
HybridWashington, United States
Washington, United StatesHybridFull Time$129,000–$193,500 yearSenior LevelCybersecurityMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMediumCybersecurity
Job Summary
Deploy and manage a containerized workspace streaming platform on Kubernetes, customizing Helm charts and Docker images for desktops and isolated browsers. Operate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, handling capacity planning, node management, and security for GPU-accelerated workloads. Build CI/CD pipelines for automated image builds, vulnerability scanning, and configuration rollouts while monitoring platform health and driving root-cause analysis on incidents. Partner with security teams to integrate identity providers and logging pipelines, then document runbooks and mentor support staff.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or application support role supporting production workloads
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (deployments, services, ingress, Helm, RBAC, troubleshooting pods and networking) in real production environments
- Deep Docker expertise, including authoring multi-stage Dockerfiles, building and optimizing images, managing private registries, and debugging container runtime issues
- Solid Linux systems administration skills (Ubuntu or Debian preferred), including scripting in Bash and at least one of Python or Go for automation and tooling
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including compute, networking (VPC, subnets, security groups), storage, IAM, and managed Kubernetes offerings
- Strong networking fundamentals, including TLS and PKI, DNS, HTTP and HTTPS proxies, reverse proxies, load balancers, and common troubleshooting tools (tcpdump, curl, dig, kubectl exec)
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) for image builds and Kubernetes deployments
- Comfort operating and patching Linux VMs and servers in a production setting, including creating reproducible VM images (Packer, cloud-init, or equivalent)
- Note: Our interview process for all final-round candidates requires a mandatory in-person interview or a live, scheduled video conference with the hiring manager. We do not conduct interviews via instant messaging or text.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Rancher, RKE2, EKS, AKS, or GKE
- Bonus: Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), KubeVirt or Harvester, GPU-enabled container workloads, session streaming or VDI platforms, SAML or OIDC integration, or running regulated environments (FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI)
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