Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

Red Cell Partners

. Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on infrastructure automation, security hardening, and incident response. Proficient in using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices to deliver reliable and secure software solutions.

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AWS Cloud ExperienceKubernetes OperationsInfrastructure As Code (Terraform, Pulumi)CI/CD Systems ManagementSecurity Hardening and Compliance

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Hard Skills

LinuxDockerKubernetesHelmTerraformPulumiPythonGoTypeScriptCI/CD

Soft Skills

Partner-Facing CommunicationTroubleshooting SkillsMentoring

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureGCPGitOpsSBOMsFIPS-Enabled ComponentsHarbor

Certifications & Qualifications

U.S. Government Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

SREDevOpsNational SecurityFederal AgenciesSTIG HardeningNIST ControlsFedRAMPRMF/ATOGovernment Cloud InfrastructureAI/ML Workloads

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureBootstrapCloudDNSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
Package and validate Trase OS services and dependencies using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and approved registries.
Maintain versioned image inventories, release manifests, and image digests for partner deliveries.
Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, cluster bootstrap automation, and CI/CD or GitOps workflows.
Prepare and validate networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, and model-provider connectivity.
Support restricted-network and disconnected deployment patterns.
Validate representative agent workflows end to end, including integrations, authentication, model access, and persistent state.
Own technical triage and troubleshooting for partner deployment and production issues.
Deliver tested releases, patches, and upgrades with validation gates, compatibility checks, smoke tests, rollback procedures, and release notes.
Operate metrics, logs, traces, audit logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
Support incident response, recovery, capacity planning, and reliability improvements.
Partner with GRC and security teams on container hardening, vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation, SBOMs, and engineering evidence for STIG, RMF/ATO, and impact-level requirements.
Support sustainment of federal deployments through patching, image updates, configuration changes, and ongoing security remediation.
Maintain deployment guides, environment inventories, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation.
Provide partner onboarding, knowledge transfer, and operational handoffs.
Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions across engagements.
Establish standards for secure releases, production readiness, observability, and support handoffs.
Clarify requirements, validate acceptance criteria, estimate work, and surface risks and dependencies.
Turn recurring partner needs into reusable automation and platform improvements.
Mentor engineers and partner teams and document technical decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

U.S. citizenship is required.
10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production systems.
Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations.
Strong experience with Helm and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review.
Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.
Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, including adapting cloud-native products for these deployment models.
Strong 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, plus observability and incident response for production services.
Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.
Experience hardening production infrastructure and container images, investigating vulnerability findings, and delivering validated security fixes with security teams.
Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills, with ownership of technical issues from initial report through validated resolution and operational handoff.
Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools to accelerate development, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.
Prior SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs is strongly preferred.
An active U.S. government security clearance is strongly preferred.
Experience operating in restricted-network, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments is strongly preferred.
Familiarity with STIG hardening, NIST controls, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO evidence, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 deployment requirements is strongly preferred.
Experience with government cloud infrastructure, including AWS GovCloud, and federal deployment platforms such as Second Front/Game Warden is strongly preferred.
Experience with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, FIPS-enabled components, Harbor, or policy as code is strongly preferred.
Experience supporting long-running, stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads is strongly preferred.
Customer-facing, partner engineering, or forward-deployed experience supporting multiple organizations and transferring operational knowledge is strongly preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.
Bonus
Up to 20% travel may be required.