Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Construct and manage RCF/RCP partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, as well as customer-controlled or on-premises infrastructure.

• Package and authenticate Trase OS services and their dependencies utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and sanctioned registries.

• Maintain inventories of versioned images, release manifests, and image digests.

• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, automate cluster bootstrapping, and implement CI/CD or GitOps workflows.

• Prepare and verify networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, and model-provider connectivity.

• Support deployment patterns for restricted networks and disconnected environments.

• Validate representative agent workflows from start to finish.

• Take responsibility for technical triage and troubleshooting of partner deployment and production issues.

• Deliver validated releases, patches, and upgrades with necessary gates, compatibility checks, smoke tests, rollback processes, and release documentation.

• Manage metrics, logs, traces, audit logs, dashboards, alerts, and service level objectives (SLOs).

• Assist in incident response, recovery, capacity planning, and enhancing reliability.

• Collaborate with GRC and security teams on container hardening, vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation, SBOMs, and providing engineering evidence for STIG, RMF/ATO, and impact-level requirements.

• Support the sustainability of federal deployments through patching, image updates, configuration adjustments, and ongoing security remediation.

• Maintain deployment guides, environment inventories, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation.

• Facilitate partner onboarding, knowledge transfer, and operational handoffs.

• Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions across various engagements.

• Establish standards for secure releases, production readiness, observability, and support transitions.

• Collaborate with TPM, Product, GRC, and partner teams to clarify requirements, validate acceptance criteria, estimate tasks, and identify risks.

• Transform recurring partner needs into reusable automation and enhancements for the platform.

• Mentor engineers and partner teams, documenting key decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Over 10 years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering, with direct ownership of production systems.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations.

• Strong proficiency with Helm and infrastructure as code tools, such as Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change reviews.

• Practical infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, covering compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.

• Experience deploying and managing software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, including adapting cloud-native products for these deployment scenarios.

• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, ingress, load balancing, certificates, IAM, secrets management, persistent storage, and service-to-service security.

• Experience operating CI/CD or GitOps systems for releases, upgrades, and rollbacks, along with observability and incident response for production services.

• Strong software engineering and automation capabilities in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar programming language, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.

• Experience in hardening production infrastructure and container images, investigating vulnerability findings, and delivering validated security fixes in collaboration with security teams.

• Excellent partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills, with accountability for technical issues from initial report through to validated resolution and operational handoff.

• Proven experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools to expedite development, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.

• Willingness to travel up to 20% may be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Career advancement opportunities with the potential for rapid growth based on strong performance as the firm expands.

• Comprehensive health care coverage for you and your family, with 100% of costs paid by the employer, including medical, dental, and vision.

• Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at the employee's regular pay rate.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO), subject to management approval.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous education.

• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

• Access to mental health benefits through Tara Mind.