Company

Engineering

DevOpsEngineer(Cleared)

$180–240k Washington, District of Columbia, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“DevOps Engineer (Cleared). Skills: DevOps, Cloud deployment, System accreditation. Design system architecture. Maintain system architecture”

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

Managing complexity; Solving hard problems; Identifying opportunities

Eligibility Requirements

US DoD security clearance, Secret clearance, On-site as needed

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

US DoD security clearance, minimum Secret clearance, 4+ years DevOps engineer, Experience leading engineers, Experience collaborating with engineers, On-site experience with stakeholders, communication skills, experience with Docker, experience with Kubernetes, experience with Helm, experience with CI/CD, experience with system design, experience with strategy, experience with multi-cloud deployment, Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, Knowledge of FedRAMP, Knowledge of NIST 800-53

Nice to Have

Experience with LLMs is a plus

What You'll Do.

Design system architecture

Maintain system architecture

Build CI/CD pipelines

Inform deployment strategy

Confront infrastructure problems

Deploy LLMs efficiently

Deploy large models robustly

Drive system accreditations

Build hardened docker images

Improve CI/CD processes

Make application updates painless

Make dependency updates painless

Make compliance technical decisions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Working with partners; Working on technical team; Collaborating with engineers; Working with stakeholders

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Full Job Description

INTRODUCTION We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems. WHAT WE OFFER - The ability to have real impact on mission-critical workflows - The chance to use state-of-the-art tech to solve novel problems with mission partners - The opportunity to define your role through time as we grow - Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact POSITION OVERVIEW You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy. You'll have an opportunity to shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments, and to confront interesting infrastructure problems around deploying LLMs and other large models efficiently and robustly. You'll help drive our system's numerous accreditations, including FedRAMP, IL5, IL6, and beyond. We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness and ability to take ownership of hard problems. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application - Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed - Docker: Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs. - Kubernetes: Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by c

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