DevOps Engineering Manager (D.C. Area)

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. Responsibilities Team Leadership Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps and DevSecOps engineers and Forward Deployed 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 Guide the development of deployment standards, operational processes, and reference architectures across Legion environments. Partner with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are deployable, supportable, and maintainable. Drive standardization and automation efforts that improve scalability and reduce operational burden. Platform & Infrastructure Engineering Lead the team responsible for deployment infrastructure, operational tooling, CI/CD systems, and platform support capabilities. Partner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to support product roadmap execution and operational requirements. Customer Engagement Engage directly with customer technical teams during deployment planning, onboarding, and escalation activities. Support mission-critical deployments and operational troubleshooting when required. Build trusted relationships with customer technical stakeholders. Represent Legion during technical discussions involving deployment architecture, operational readiness, and platform sustainment. Deployment Engineering The Deployment Engineering team is responsible for operationalizing Legion's software across customer environments ranging from enterprise cloud deployments to disconnected and air-gapped tactical systems. The Deployment Engineering Manager leads this function, partnering closely with Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Customer Success teams to ensure Legion systems remain operationally effective t…