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Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal
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Role overview Build and operate secure, dependable deployments of a software platform across government and partner environments. The work spans cloud, private network, and on-premises infrastructure, from initial setup through upgrades and production support. At Staff level, the role also sets shared technical standards and develops reusable approaches across deployments.
Responsibilities - Deploy and maintain partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and customer-managed infrastructure, adapting to access and security constraints. - Package and validate services with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm; maintain versioned release manifests and artifact inventories. - Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code, cluster setup automation, and CI/CD or GitOps workflows. - Configure and validate networking, identity, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, and model-provider access, including restricted or disconnected environments. - Troubleshoot deployment and production issues across applications, clusters, cloud infrastructure, and networks; coordinate fixes and confirm resolution. - Deliver tested releases and upgrades with compatibility checks, smoke tests, rollback steps, observability, and clear operational handoffs.
Requirements - U.S. citizenship and 10+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering, including production ownership. - Strong hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and production cluster operations. - Infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules and change review. - Production infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus customer-controlled, hybrid, private-cloud, or on-premises deployments. - Solid knowledge of networking, identity and access management, secrets, certificates, storage, and service security. - Automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, with experience in releases, observability, and incident response.
Nice to have Experience with federal cloud environments, software supply-chain security, signed artifacts, SBOMs, FIPS-enabled components, policy as code, stateful or AI/ML workloads, or customer-facing partner engineering. Travel may reach 20%.
Benefits and work setup The role includes health, dental, and vision coverage; paid parental leave; flexible paid time off subject to approval; professional development support; and optional retirement, savings, and equity programs.