Senior DevOps Engineer

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Are you an elite technical leader with an active Top Secret clearance who excels at scaling complex cloud infrastructure, engineering robust automated systems, and serving as a trusted advisor to federal agencies? Protect and optimize mission-critical public sector systems. Location: McLean/Tysons, VA | Work Model: On-site (4-5 days per week)

About the Team

Appian Customer Success is obsessed with supporting our federal customers’ missions by delivering transformative, high-availability cloud automation solutions. Our Federal DevOps Engineering team works hand-in-hand with government agencies, ensuring their automated workflows are resilient, securely scaled, and continuously optimized. Grounded in a culture of in-person collaboration at our McLean HQ, we tackle complex technical challenges to keep public infrastructure running smoothly.

The Opportunity

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within our Federal Customer Success division, you will operate as a premier technical leader and strategic advisor to high-profile public sector clients. This role is vital right now because federal agencies are rapidly shifting toward complex, secured cloud environments and automated system architectures. You will combine your technical mastery, product expertise, and business intelligence to lead large-scale environment installations, manage automated cloud deployments, and empower agencies to achieve true Enterprise-Grade Orchestration .

What You’ll Do

• Lead Enterprise Cloud Scaling: Act as the technical authority overseeing the installation, operation, management, and global scaling of the Appian platform across federal customer environments.
• Architect Infrastructure & Systems: Leverage senior-level systems administration expertise ( Linux , Windows) to deploy and scale solutions across major IaaS Solutions such as AWS , Google Compute Engine, or Microsoft Azure.
• Automate Security & Operations: Champion technical efficiency by utilizing advanced programming and scripting skills ( BASH , Java , JavaScript, Python , or Ruby) to automate patching, host maintenance, and configuration management.
• Govern Relational Data Tiering: Administer, tune, and optimize critical relational database platforms ( PostgreSQL , MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) to support heavy enterprise transaction volumes.
• Advise Executive Stakeholders: Serve as a trusted advisor to federal clients, delivering exceptional customer interaction (verbal, written, and face-to-face) to align platform capabilities with agency mission goals.
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Benefits

Appian offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future. Benefits may include health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), a retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits and more. Benefits vary by country—please ask your Talent Acquisition contact for details specific to the location you are applying to.

About Appian

Appian provides AI automation for the most important business processes at the world’s largest organizations. Our platform is known for its unique power, reliability, and scale. We’ve been automating processes for more than 25 years and have proven expertise in enterprise operations. For more information, visit appian.com .

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