K2United is an organization that houses two distinct, national, customer-facing brands tied together by a shared purpose: setting the standard for an extraordinary workplace. Through our brands, K2Share and CareerSafe, we provide advisory services in cyber risk management and online education for workforce readiness.
Our four core values define how we show up every day:
- Respect Others – We lead with respect, building trust and connection.
- Internally Driven – We are relentlessly compelled to accomplish our objectives.
- Collaborative Innovation – We create by listening, sharing, and working together.
- Client Success – We hold our client’s mission as our own.
We believe in people who are accountable, curious, and motivated to make an impact that matters.
Our programs make a big impact—CareerSafe supports 2 million+ users per year, and K2Share delivers IT support on federal systems. You’ll have the opportunity to shape technology strategy, lead a talented IT team, and make a difference in a mission-driven, small-business environment that values professional growth and work/life balance.
Your Impact
You will help power CareerSafe, serving more than 3 million users annually, while supporting cloud platforms that operate in regulated environments where reliability, security, and audit readiness matter.
This is a hands-on, player-coach role.
You are accountable for the platform, the standards, and how the work gets done.
Success in this role means:
- Leading DevOps and cloud engineering through technical direction, not hierarchy. You set standards, guide implementation, and stay close to the work while helping other engineers grow in capability and ownership.
- Building and evolving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation frameworks that make deployments predictable, repeatable, and low-risk.
- Embedding security and compliance into the way systems are built and deployed, not as a separate step, but as part of how the platform operates day to day.
- Engineering and improving cloud infrastructure across AWS, GovCloud, and Azure, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and cost-effective.
- Partnering closely with Application Development, Architecture, and Security to ensure platforms support fast, reliable, and secure delivery.
- Strengthening platform reliability and operational discipline, resolving complex issues when they arise and reducing the likelihood they happen again.
- Contributing directly to the work. This role is not about delegating from a distance. It is about building systems, improving them, and helping others do the same.
It is about building systems and practices that allow the team to operate reliably.
This role is collaborative, direct, and accountable. You lead from the front, stay close to the technology, and make both systems and engineers stronger over time.
What You Will Work On
DevOps Platform & Automation
- Design and operate CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, reliable deployments
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Standardize deployment patterns and eliminate manual processes
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
- Engineer scalable, high-availability cloud environments
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
- Optimize cost, performance, and system reliability
- DevSecOps & Compliance
- Integrate security scanning, controls, and auditability into pipelines
- Support environments aligned to NIST 800-171 and similar frameworks
Platform Reliability
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Lead root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes
- Support backup, recovery, and resilience practices
Technical Leadership
- Set and enforce engineering standards
- Mentor engineers and improve team capability
- Drive clarity, ownership, and accountability through how work is executed
This role is a strong fit if most of the following are true:
- 7–10+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating cloud environments (AWS required, GovCloud/Azure preferred)
- Deep experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Proven ability to build and operate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Strong Linux systems experience in cloud environments
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
- Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (NIST, FedRAMP, etc.)
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues without relying on escalation
- Experience mentoring other engineers and improving team capability through hands-on guidance
- Comfortable working in a highly accountable environment where priorities and outcomes are explicit
What Matters Here
- Ownership over activity
- Clarity over ambiguity
- Systems over heroics
- Accountability over excuses
- Continuous improvement over comfort
Why This Role
- Direct ownership of DevOps and cloud platform direction
- Opportunity to shape how engineering is done across the organization
- Hands-on technical work with meaningful influence
- A team that values accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement
Benefits:
We’re invested in the people who make our success possible. As a K2United employee, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive set of benefits and opportunities that meet you where you are. These benefits include:
- 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions
- Low-cost, comprehensive medical benefits for employees and their families
- Flexibility for those needing time off for jury duty, voting, military leave, etc.
- Wellness stipend program (includes fitness reimbursement program)
- Tuition stipend
- Casual dress work environment
- Technical training and certifications as required
- Any of our CareerSafe Online training courses for free to employees and their immediate family
Applicants must be willing to take a drug test and submit to a credit and background investigation as part of the selection process.
The U.S. government restricts access by Foreign Nationals to certain types of technology and technical data. Consequently, this posting is intended only for U.S. citizens.
K2United, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected Veteran status.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of job responsibilities. K2United management reserves the right to change or alter this job description at any time without notice.
