DevOps Engineer, Public Sector at Scale AI

Compensation

$148,800 – $311,000/yr

Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Type: Full-time
Posted: Jul 15, 2026

Description

Scale is hiring DevOps Engineers for its Public Sector team to build, enhance, and standardize CI/CD pipelines for low-side and high-side products, improve SDLC automation, and integrate machine learning tasks into deployment workflows. The role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with willingness to up level to CI Poly, and emphasizes collaboration with product and engineering teams, security best practices, troubleshooting deployment issues, and strong experience with containerization, cloud platforms, scripting, and CI/CD tooling.

Required Skills

CI/CD pipelines
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Python
Bash
PowerShell
Cloud platforms
Jenkins
Security best practices

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 2-3 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, software engineering with CI/CD focus, or similar
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to obtain CI Poly
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building or significantly enhancing CI/CD pipelines
Ability to adapt application code for CI/CD integration
Knowledge of software architecture, system design, and version control
Interest in learning ML workflow integration
Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills
Exposure to machine learning lifecycles or MLOps
Prior experience in classified environments