Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Posted 4mo ago

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Lead deployment and operationalization of SaaS products
Own end-to-end infrastructure delivery
Elevate DevOps practices
Collaborate with Software and Product teams
Shape platform engineering strategy
Set technical direction for distributed systems
Influence design patterns for AI workloads
Use AI tooling for IaC, pipelines, incident response
Shape agentic operations patterns
Architect, implement, and run secure, scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure
Use AI coding and agentic tools for IaC authoring, pipeline development, log/trace analysis, postmortem drafting, and toil reduction
Build and improve agentic workflows
Build and harden CI/CD pipelines for multi-environment delivery
Establish SLOs and instrument systems for observability
Drive incident response and postmortems
Integrate supply-chain security and baseline hardening
Optimize infrastructure spend and performance
Lead design reviews and author RFCs
Mentor engineers and raise quality bar
Support IL-4/IL-5-aligned patterns and RMF documentation
Define platform roadmaps and establish deployment patterns

5+ years building and operating cloud platforms
3+ years deploying SaaS in production
Strong with Terraform
Strong with Helm/Kustomize
Strong with containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
Deep AWS experience
CI/CD expertise (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Argo Workflows)
GitOps expertise (Argo CD or Flux)
Observability across metrics, logs, and traces (Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
Proven track record in IaC
Proven track record in scalable system design
Proven track record in quality tooling (automated tests, canaries/blue-green, feature flags)
Excellent communication skills
Comfortable partnering with Product, Security, and Customer teams
Ownership, autonomy, and pragmatic delivery in a startup environment
Active, fluent use of AI development/operations tools
Secret Clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one

Supply-chain security (SBOMs, SLSA concepts, image signing, provenance)
Vulnerability management (Trivy/Grype, Snyk)
Chainguard experience
Experience identifying/mitigating CVEs and setting policy thresholds
Background with DoD/regulated customers
Familiarity with IL-4/IL-5, Platform One patterns, and RMF documentation workflows
Knowledge of STIG/CIS hardening
Knowledge of air-gapped architectures
Knowledge of offline update mechanisms
Experience operating AI/ML workloads in production
Experience building agentic ops workflows / MCP-based integrations

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