DevOps Engineer at Alarm.com
Tysons, VA
$88,300–$123,500
Jul 9, 2026
Tysons, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on DevOps role focused on operating and automating a broad set of data and application platforms — including messaging systems, databases, caching, search, and analytics tools — across on-premises, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, and platform lifecycle management. Suited to engineers with two to five years of relevant experience who are comfortable working across multiple infrastructure teams.
Mid level · 2+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Full-time
Pay in the description: $88,300–$123,500
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 620 people in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 460–800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is titled 'DevOps Engineer' and spans both building automation/IaC (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers) and operating/maintaining existing platforms (pointing to 15-1244 Systems Administrators). The balance of responsibilities — CI/CD pipelines, IaC, deployment automation — tips it toward 15-1252, but 15-1244 is a credible runner-up.
The Qualifications section lists all skills as 'experience with', 'familiarity with', or 'exposure to' — none are stated as hard gates with firm language. However, the section functions as the primary requirements block, so the most substantive platform and tooling requirements (at least one enterprise platform, IaC tools, Linux) are treated as required. Kubernetes, cloud platforms, monitoring tools, CI/CD tools, and scripting are framed with softer language ('is a plus', 'familiarity', 'exposure', 'basic') and are marked preferred.
The enterprise platform requirement lists Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server as 'one or more' options — emitted as a single required skill (Kafka as primary) with the others as alternatives, since the JD gates on familiarity with at least one.
The degree requirement is listed as 'preferred, or equivalent practical experience' — treated as not a hard gate.
Location is inferred as the Alarm.com headquarters area (Tysons/Northern Virginia, part of the Washington DC CBSA). The posting notes 4 days/week in-office, so remote=false.
The 2–5 year experience range maps to a Mid-level role. The title carries no explicit seniority label, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.