Devops Engineer - Federal
Washington, DCDevOps / SREOnsite2+ YOE
Summary
Owns end-to-end technical lifecycle of mission-critical federal deployments, ensures compliance with security controls, contributes to core codebase, and shapes product direction from field learnings. Requires 2+ years software engineering experience and federal compliance expertise.
About the role
Core Responsibilities
- Architect, own, and maintain end-to-end technical lifecycle of complex, mission-critical federal enterprise deployments.
- Work directly with customer engineering and GTM teams to define deployment scope and ensure compliance with security controls and federal regulations.
- Provide technical depth on strategic deployments as the trusted expert on deployment, security, and platform architecture.
- Contribute directly to the core product codebase to improve deployability, operability, and reliability.
- Translate field learnings and customer pain points into actionable product direction.
- Build product extensions, integrations, and automation using Cognition’s APIs.
- Serve as the key technical link between Federal team and core infrastructure engineering.
- Handle escalated technical issues with deep debugging and systems analysis.
Requirements
- Strong engineering foundation with proven ability to build, debug, and maintain complex, distributed systems.
- 2+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Experience working within the government or in a government-focused company.
- Direct experience implementing compliance and security controls for federal or highly regulated environments.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar; comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases.
- Track record of pursuing excellence at high levels.
- Operated cross-functionally.
You might excel if…
- Built or contributed to software at companies known for engineering rigor.
- Enjoy hard, ambiguous problems and thrive on autonomy.
- High tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort.
Skills
PythonTypeScriptDevOpsDistributed SystemsSecurity ControlsComplianceAPIsAutomationKubernetesDocker