{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5113b209ce118deb7200fafe","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5113b209ce118deb7200fafe","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5113b209ce118deb7200fafe","title":"DevOps Engineer – Data Platform & Cloud Infrastructure","description":"Important Notice for Applicants:\nAt Bixal, we want to ensure a transparent and secure application process for all candidates. Official communication will come from an email address ending in @bixal.com or from @bixal.na.teamtailor-mail.com. Messages from other sources may be fraudulent, and you should exercise care to avoid any links or attachments included.\n\nBixal will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.\n\nNeed Assistance or a Reasonable Accommodation?\nIf you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, we're here to help. Please reach out to us at talent@bixal.com and let us know how we can support you. You do not need to share personal details or disclose the nature of your request. You can expect a response from a team member within 24 hours during the regular work week and on the next operating day during the weekend or holidays.\n\nWhy Bixal?\n\nBixal is a consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. Using evidence-based knowledge and technology, Bixal empowers clients to deliver on their missions more effectively by fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.\n\nOur values:\n\nPeople-First: Emphasizing the importance of people in all aspects of work.\n\nCollaboration and Transparency: Valuing teamwork and open communication.\n\nGrowth Mindset: Encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.\n\nCreating Lasting Impact: Focusing on meaningful outcomes and positive change.\n\nAbout the role:\n\nBixal is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. You’ll work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while partnering with engineering and security teams to automate, optimize, and strengthen our data platform.\n\nThis is a full-time position supporting an active project. This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with Bixal’s mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. While the role has a fixed duration, we are committed to transparency and collaboration, keeping you informed about contract updates and new opportunities. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our inclusive, purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success.\n\nLocation\n\nThis role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.\n\nCompensation:\n\nThe salary range for this role is $120,000 – $130,000. In the spirit of transparency, most offers tend to land near the midpoint of the range. We make compensation decisions thoughtfully, considering your experience, the skills you bring, and our commitment to internal equity. Fairness and transparency are core to how we operate.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nOwn the design, deployment, and operations of cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise data platforms, analytics workloads, and AI/ML capabilities across development, validation, and production environments.\n\nBuild and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision, manage, and standardize AWS and Databricks resources.\n\nDevelop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automation patterns for Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog resources, networking components, IAM roles, S3 storage, KMS encryption, service principals, and platform integrations.\n\nAdminister and support Databricks environments, including workspace configuration, account-level settings, Unity Catalog governance, metastore configuration, external locations, storage credentials, service credentials, clusters, jobs, secrets, and access controls.\n\nManage Databricks platform migrations, upgrades, and architectural changes while ensuring minimal disruption to users and downstream integrations.\n\nDesign and implement secure AWS architectures including VPC networking, private connectivity, VPC endpoints, IAM policies, cross-account access, S3 architectures, encryption, and least-privilege access patterns.\n\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate infrastructure deployments, validation, security checks, operational workflows, and platform management tasks.\n\nDevelop automation tooling using Python, Bash, and cloud APIs to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual platform administration.\n\nSupport enterprise identity and access management patterns including user provisioning, groups, service principals, OAuth/PAT authentication, workload identities, and automated permission management.\n\nImplement and maintain observability and audit logging solutions for cloud and\n\nDatabricks environments, including integration with enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk.\n\nDesign and support secure data platform integrations including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, external locations, data access controls, and consumer-facing data products.\n\nSupport AI/ML platform capabilities by enabling services such as MLflow, Databricks AI tooling, AWS Bedrock, foundation model integrations, and GenAI workloads.\n\nPartner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to troubleshoot complex platform issues and establish scalable engineering standards.\n\nLead technical investigations, proof-of-concepts, and platform improvements focused on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience.\n\nCreate and maintain technical documentation, onboarding guides, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and self-service tooling for internal teams and external consumers.\n\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for production data platform services.\n\nOther relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform\n\nQualifications:\n\nBachelor's degree in a relevant technical field plus 4+ years of experience, or equivalent professional experience.\n\nStrong hands-on experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.\n\nExperience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling, including developing reusable modules and managing large infrastructure deployments.\n\nExperience administering Databricks environments, including Unity Catalog, workspace management, account-level resources, permissions, service principals, and integrations.\n\nStrong understanding of AWS services including IAM, S3, VPC, Route 53, KMS, Lambda, VPC endpoints, and networking fundamentals.\n\nExperience designing secure cloud architectures using least privilege IAM, encryption, private networking, and compliance-focused controls.\n\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar automation platforms.\n\nStrong Python and Bash scripting skills with experience automating cloud, infrastructure, or platform operations.\n\nExperience supporting production data platforms, distributed systems, analytics environments, or AI/ML infrastructure.\n\nUnderstanding of data platform concepts including Delta Lake, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), data governance, and access control models.\n\nExperience troubleshooting complex issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, automation, and data platforms.\n\nStrong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with engineers, architects, security teams, and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance\n\nNice to Have Skills and Experience:\n\nExperience working in FedRAMP, FISMA, or other regulated cloud environments.\n\nExperience with Databricks E2 architecture, workspace provisioning, and account-level platform administration.\n\nExperience leading Databricks migrations, networking redesigns, or cloud modernization initiatives.\n\nExperience supporting AI/ML platforms, AWS Bedrock, LLM integrations, RAG architectures, or GenAI workloads.\n\nExperience with enterprise logging and monitoring solutions such as Splunk.\n\nExperience managing GitHub organization settings, repository automation, and developer tooling.\n\nDatabricks, AWS, Terraform, or cloud security certifications.\n\nExperience supporting healthcare, or federal government environments.\n\nHow We Support Our Team:\n\nFlex hours\n\n401K with matching incentive\n\nParental Leave\n\nMedical/dental/vision benefits\n\nFlex Spending Account\n\nCompany provided short-term disability and life insurance\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\n11 Paid holidays\n\nOur company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all individuals and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. 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Official communication will come from an email address ending in @bixal.com or from @bixal.na.teamtailor-mail.com. Messages from other sources may be fraudulent, and you should exercise care to avoid any links or attachments included.\n\nBixal will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.\n\nNeed Assistance or a Reasonable Accommodation?\nIf you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, we're here to help. Please reach out to us at talent@bixal.com and let us know how we can support you. You do not need to share personal details or disclose the nature of your request. You can expect a response from a team member within 24 hours during the regular work week and on the next operating day during the weekend or holidays.\n\nWhy Bixal?\n\nBixal is a consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. Using evidence-based knowledge and technology, Bixal empowers clients to deliver on their missions more effectively by fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.\n\nOur values:\n\nPeople-First: Emphasizing the importance of people in all aspects of work.\n\nCollaboration and Transparency: Valuing teamwork and open communication.\n\nGrowth Mindset: Encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.\n\nCreating Lasting Impact: Focusing on meaningful outcomes and positive change.\n\nAbout the role:\n\nBixal is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting data, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. You’ll work hands-on with AWS, Databricks, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while partnering with engineering and security teams to automate, optimize, and strengthen our data platform.\n\nThis is a full-time position supporting an active project. This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with Bixal’s mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. While the role has a fixed duration, we are committed to transparency and collaboration, keeping you informed about contract updates and new opportunities. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our inclusive, purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success.\n\nLocation\n\nThis role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.\n\nCompensation:\n\nThe salary range for this role is $120,000 – $130,000. In the spirit of transparency, most offers tend to land near the midpoint of the range. We make compensation decisions thoughtfully, considering your experience, the skills you bring, and our commitment to internal equity. Fairness and transparency are core to how we operate.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nOwn the design, deployment, and operations of cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise data platforms, analytics workloads, and AI/ML capabilities across development, validation, and production environments.\n\nBuild and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision, manage, and standardize AWS and Databricks resources.\n\nDevelop and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automation patterns for Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog resources, networking components, IAM roles, S3 storage, KMS encryption, service principals, and platform integrations.\n\nAdminister and support Databricks environments, including workspace configuration, account-level settings, Unity Catalog governance, metastore configuration, external locations, storage credentials, service credentials, clusters, jobs, secrets, and access controls.\n\nManage Databricks platform migrations, upgrades, and architectural 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Splunk.\n\nDesign and support secure data platform integrations including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, external locations, data access controls, and consumer-facing data products.\n\nSupport AI/ML platform capabilities by enabling services such as MLflow, Databricks AI tooling, AWS Bedrock, foundation model integrations, and GenAI workloads.\n\nPartner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to troubleshoot complex platform issues and establish scalable engineering standards.\n\nLead technical investigations, proof-of-concepts, and platform improvements focused on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience.\n\nCreate and maintain technical documentation, onboarding guides, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and self-service tooling for internal teams and external consumers.\n\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for production data platform services.\n\nOther relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform\n\nQualifications:\n\nBachelor's degree in a relevant technical field plus 4+ years of experience, or equivalent professional experience.\n\nStrong hands-on experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.\n\nExperience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling, including developing reusable modules and managing large infrastructure deployments.\n\nExperience administering Databricks environments, including Unity Catalog, workspace management, account-level resources, permissions, service principals, and integrations.\n\nStrong understanding of AWS services including IAM, S3, VPC, Route 53, KMS, Lambda, VPC endpoints, and networking fundamentals.\n\nExperience designing secure cloud architectures using least privilege IAM, encryption, private networking, and compliance-focused controls.\n\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar automation platforms.\n\nStrong Python and Bash scripting skills with experience automating cloud, infrastructure, or platform operations.\n\nExperience supporting production data platforms, distributed systems, analytics environments, or AI/ML infrastructure.\n\nUnderstanding of data platform concepts including Delta Lake, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), data governance, and access control models.\n\nExperience troubleshooting complex issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, automation, and data platforms.\n\nStrong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with engineers, architects, security teams, and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance\n\nNice to Have Skills and Experience:\n\nExperience working in FedRAMP, FISMA, or other regulated cloud environments.\n\nExperience with Databricks E2 architecture, workspace provisioning, and account-level platform administration.\n\nExperience leading Databricks migrations, networking redesigns, or cloud modernization initiatives.\n\nExperience supporting AI/ML platforms, AWS Bedrock, LLM integrations, RAG architectures, or GenAI workloads.\n\nExperience with enterprise logging and monitoring solutions such as Splunk.\n\nExperience managing GitHub organization settings, repository automation, and developer tooling.\n\nDatabricks, AWS, Terraform, or cloud security certifications.\n\nExperience supporting healthcare, or federal government environments.\n\nHow We Support Our Team:\n\nFlex hours\n\n401K with matching incentive\n\nParental Leave\n\nMedical/dental/vision benefits\n\nFlex Spending Account\n\nCompany provided short-term disability and life insurance\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\n11 Paid holidays\n\nOur company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all individuals and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. 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