DevOps Engineering Manager (D.C. Area)
Legion Intelligence
| Company | Legion Intelligence |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Washington D.C |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 5 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Legion
Let’s be real, AI isn’t magic; Legion was built to move beyond AI hype—delivering secure, reliable systems that work alongside the people tackling the world’s most critical challenges.
Born from a Department of Defense partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems, unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and strengthening mission-critical systems. We don’t replace workflows—we optimize them, ensuring quality, efficiency, and reliability inside the platforms our partners already use.
With world-class collaborators like Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle, we’re building intelligent infrastructure that enhances human capability and drives impact at the edge and across a range of enterprises.
We’re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping the future of AI that’s secure, grounded, and built to work. DevOps Engineering Manager (DevOps/DevSecOps/Site Reliability/Deployment Engineering) (D.C. Area)
***This position requires a US Department of Defense or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance.
***Due to Government contract requirements, we are only able to hire US citizens.
***Up to 25% embedded onsite with customers locally in D.C. area with some additional travel as needed to out of area client sites, working in classified or constrained environments, managing Legion Intelligence team members.
About the Role
Legion Intelligence is seeking a Manager of Deployment Engineering to lead the team responsible for deploying, operating, upgrading, and sustaining Legion software across customer environments.
They will lead a team of deployment and DevOps engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical execution as a player-coach.
This individual will own operational readiness, deployment execution, platform reliability, upgrade velocity, and deployment automation across Legion's growing deployment footprint.
This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, mission engineering, customer operations, and infrastructure. Success requires balancing customer commitments, platform stability, operational excellence, and engineering velocity while continuously reducing the effort required to deploy and sustain Legion products.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable leading a team, coordinating a complex deployment, troubleshooting a production Kubernetes cluster, and driving long-term improvements that make deployments faster, more reliable, and more repeatable.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers.
Establish DevOps standards, operational processes, and team priorities.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, technical excellence, and customer focus.
Coordinate work across customer deployments, platform operations, and internal infrastructure requirements.
Drive operational rigor while maintaining a bias toward execution and delivery.
Deployment Operations & Reliability
Lead the Deployment Engineering team's execution of customer deployments, upgrades, sustainment activities, and operational support.
Oversee operational readiness, deployment health, and reliability across Legion customer environments.
Coordinate cross-functional activities required to support deployments, upgrades, incident response, and customer operations.
Serve as a senior escalation point for complex deployment and operational issues.
Drive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency, operational reliability, and customer experience.
Coordinate deployment and operational dependencies across engineering, security, product, mission engineering, and customer stakeholders.
Lead technical readiness reviews and establish operational standards that ensure deployed systems meet Legion's requirements for velocity, resiliency, and control.
Deployment Architecture & Standards
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