Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal/National Security

The role

You will build the secure delivery and deployment foundation for Red Cell Federal. This involves designing CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and operational processes for software across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments.

What you will do

• Design and build Red Cell Federal’s CI/CD and software promotion pipelines from the ground up.
• Establish secure processes for promoting software across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments.
• Support ATO-related technical activities for software agents and customer deployments.
• Build repeatable deployment, release, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Deploy and operate software in government and customer-controlled environments.
• Diagnose issues in environments where logs, data, or direct access cannot be shared broadly.
• Partner with software and platform engineering teams to isolate problems and deliver corrected artifacts.
• Define infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, secrets management, and artifact-handling practices.
• Help establish operational and compliance practices appropriate for federal work.
• Evaluate tools and architecture based on security, reliability, portability, and mission requirements.

Required qualifications

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher.
• Professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, release engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Experience building or substantially redesigning CI/CD and deployment systems.
• Experience deploying software into government, defense, regulated, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted environments.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, artifact promotion, environment isolation, access controls, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or comparable tooling.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, or related orchestration and packaging technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration automation.
• Ability to script and automate in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions with incomplete requirements.
• Strong communication skills across software engineering, security, compliance, and customer stakeholders.
• A builder mentality and genuine interest in creating systems from zero.

Nice to have

• An active Top Secret clearance
• Experience with IL4, IL5, IL6, classified, or cross-domain deployment workflows.
• Experience contributing to an ATO or continuous authorization process.
• Familiarity with NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, STIGs, or related federal requirements.

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

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher required.
• Application materials may be processed by third-party hiring platforms to verify accuracy and authenticity.

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.