DevOps Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)

About the position

Are you looking to combine your passion for technology with your penchant for strategic problem solving? Appian Customer success is obsessed with great customer outcomes. We deliver mission-critical business impact fast, and are directly responsible for partnering with our customers to bring their best ideas to life. Joining the Customer Success team will provide you with the support and growth you need to strengthen and evolve your skills within the consulting field. Appian is looking for a DevOps Engineer (Internally referred to as "Associate Architect") to scale Appian's technical solutions and work alongside Appian's delivery teams. As an Associate Architect, you will be an Appian technical leader within our Federal Customer Success team as well as an advisor to Appian's clients. In this role, not only do you become an expert at installing, operating, and scaling the Appian platform, but you will also be scaling business process applications on our software. You will become a business process expert in the various industries of our clients. The ideal candidate will combine Appian technical, product and business skills to make our customers successful. This role is based at our Headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.

Requirements

• Ability to provide exceptional customer interaction (verbal, written, face-to-face)
• Systems administration (e.g. Linux, Windows) experience with IaaS Solutions (e.g.: Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, or Microsoft Azure). Administering and managing an on-prem installation of an Appian environment is a huge plus.
• Administration of one or more RDMS platforms (e.g. MySql, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Postgres, MariaDB)
• Programming / scripting (e.g. Java, Javascript, BASH, Perl, Ruby, C#, PHP)
• Kubernetes is also a huge plus for this role.
• Bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, or similar work
• Approximately 3-5 years of experience as an expert IT systems administrator building, maintaining, scripting, patching, & managing hosts, databases, and interconnected Cloud services
• Hold a government clearance at the Top Secret level or higher
• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector roles must be a U.S. citizen and be able to maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance
• CompTIA Security+ certification required prior to or directly following onboarding

Benefits

• Access to over 1,000+ Udemy courses, along with dedicated learning time to focus on areas you specifically would like to focus on as a cloud systems administrator
• An agile-led work environment where you will be challenged and your ideas will be heard
• Within your first few weeks of joining us, you will attend new hire orientation along with our 25-day CS Academy, Agile methodology, and Appian system administration & customer support bootcamps to ensure you are set up for success