[Hiring] Senior DevOps Platform Engineer @Salt Ai

Role Description

As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will own the deployment backbone that makes Salt’s multi-environment AI platform reliable, fast, and secure. You’ll design and operate infrastructure that runs across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem—supporting customers who depend on Salt for mission-critical life sciences workloads.

• Drive velocity by building and maintaining high-speed, reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Own multi-cloud deployment consistency across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem environments (GCP, AWS, Azure), ensuring parity and predictable behavior.
• Define and enforce infrastructure and deployment standards to prevent environment drift.
• Implement and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure platform health, performance, and SLOs.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Design and maintain application security, backup, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Partner closely with developers to improve application performance, reliability, and operability.
• Participate in incident response, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Maintain clear, discoverable documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and runbooks.
• Support QA by enabling automated testing in pipelines and stable test environments.
• Champion and spread best practices for code quality, security, and deployment standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating production cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), ideally in multi-cloud environments.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and pipeline design (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Proficiency with Docker and core containerization concepts.
• Experience implementing and operating observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces).
• Solid understanding of web application deployment, scaling, and reliability fundamentals.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar for automation.
• Experience integrating automated tests into deployment workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, especially in distributed systems.
• Clear, concise communication and a collaborative working style.

Requirements

• Experience with database administration, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Familiarity with security best practices for cloud-native and multi-tenant applications.
• Experience with performance testing, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, and traffic routing.
• Experience with AI/ML, HPC, or other data- and compute-intensive workloads.
• Contributions to internal DevOps/Platform tooling or open-source automation projects.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on location and experience.
• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, mental health, and 401(k).
• Fully remote role, collaborating primarily within U.S. time zones.