Ontic
Staff DevOps Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will architect and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms across AWS and AWS GovCloud. They will drive zero-trust security, automation, observability, and cost governance for multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments.
What you will do
- Lead the design and governance of scalable, resilient, Kubernetes platforms
- Define standardized blueprints for multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments
- Architect high-availability, multi-AZ, and disaster recovery strategies
- Establish secure-by-design cloud architecture and workload identity models
- Enforce RBAC, IAM governance, encryption standards, and least-privilege principles
- Integrate supply-chain security, policy enforcement, and compliance validation into CI/CD pipelines
- Implement AIOps capabilities for intelligent alerting and anomaly detection
- Drive infrastructure standardization using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows
- Define SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability benchmarks
- Implement cloud cost observability and allocation strategies
Required qualifications
- 8-10+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering in enterprise or high-scale SaaS environments
- Proven experience in architecting and operating production environments in AWS and AWS GovCloud
- Demonstrated experience maintaining a FedRAMP Moderate/High production environment
- Experience owning infrastructure patterns and changes within the authorized boundary
- Strong experience designing and operating AWS Landing Zone architectures
- Advanced Terraform experience building reusable, secure infrastructure modules and standardized environments
- Deep understanding of AWS and AWS GovCloud networking
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes-based platform design and large-scale cluster operations
- Strong experience implementing GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) and CI/CD automation (Jenkins, GitLab)
- Hands-on production experience with distributed systems, including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, and ArangoDB
- Strong understanding of IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and zero-trust access models
- Experience implementing enterprise observability stacks
Nice to have
- GCP or OCI experience
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms and dedicated workload environments
- Exposure to service mesh and secure east-west traffic management
- Exposure to AIOps
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
- 401k
- Stock Options
- HSA Contribution
- Learning Stipend
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Quarterly company ME (mental escape) days
- Generous Parental Leave policy
- Home Office Stipend
- Mobile Phone Reimbursement
- Home Internet Reimbursement for Remote Employees
Before you apply
- Work must be performed within the United States
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Must be a U.S. citizen
About the company
Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record.