Infrastructure engineering and DevOps for defense and intelligence agencies
Akina is a 11–50 person engineering firm selling into the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense, with a stack built around Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Jenkins, and Docker — the infrastructure-as-code and container tooling expected in heavily regulated environments. Hiring is engineering-heavy (49 of 69 open roles) weighted toward senior and mid-level talent, and their active projects cluster around cloud migration, HPC sustainment, and infrastructure discrepancy detection, suggesting they're modernizing legacy on-prem systems while maintaining existing classified infrastructure.
Akina provides software development, systems engineering, integration, and project management services to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. Founded in 2017 and based in Highland, Maryland, the company holds woman-owned and Native American-owned certifications and SDVOSB designation. Their work spans cloud infrastructure (moving systems to AWS), container platforms (Kubernetes, Docker), heterogeneous storage environments (managing data across multiple sites), and mission-critical systems in classified environments. The tech stack reflects both modern DevOps practices and support for legacy infrastructure (Solaris, Windows, Red Hat, SUSE).
Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Python, Linux, Bash, Ruby, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation, MongoDB, MySQL, Splunk, and legacy platforms including Solaris, Windows, Red Hat, and SUSE.
Cloud migration (moving CNO development environment to AWS), HPC sustainment across multiple sites, infrastructure discrepancy detection, container security, and transitioning legacy systems into operations.
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