Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal

The role

You will build, deploy, and operate infrastructure supporting Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners' incubations and portfolio companies. This hands-on role involves partner onboarding, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, secure releases, observability, and production support.

What you will do

• Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises infrastructure.
• Package and validate Trase OS services using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and CI/CD or GitOps workflows.
• Prepare and validate networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, and storage.
• Remove or abstract cloud-specific dependencies for partner deployments.
• Own technical triage and troubleshooting for partner deployment and production issues.
• Deliver tested releases, patches, and upgrades with automated validation.
• Operate metrics, logs, traces, audit logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
• Partner with GRC and security teams on container hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Support sustainment of federal deployments through patching and security remediation.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments.
• 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.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Experience hardening production infrastructure and container images and delivering validated security fixes.
• Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.

Nice to have

• Prior SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or other government programs.
• An active U.S. government security clearance.
• Experience operating in restricted-network, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.
• Hands-on familiarity with STIG hardening, NIST controls, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO evidence, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 deployment requirements.
• Experience with government cloud infrastructure, including AWS GovCloud, and federal deployment platforms such as Second Front/Game Warden.
• Experience with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, FIPS-enabled components, Harbor, or policy as code.
• Experience supporting long-running, stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads.
• Customer-facing, partner engineering, or forward-deployed experience supporting multiple organizations.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement
• 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

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required.

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Trase Systems is an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise.