[Hiring] Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer @Red Cell Partners

Role Description

As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer at Trase, you will build, deploy, and operate the infrastructure supporting Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners’ incubations and portfolio companies. You will join Trase's dedicated RCF/RCP support team, with a strong focus on federal, government, and national security programs.

This is a hands-on engineering role spanning partner onboarding, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, secure releases, observability, and production support. You will work directly with partner engineers, Trase's dedicated software engineers and TPM, Platform Engineering, and GRC to turn requirements into validated deployments and dependable operations.

• Build and operate RCF/RCP partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and customer-controlled or on-premises infrastructure.
• Package and validate Trase OS services and dependencies using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and approved registries.
• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, cluster bootstrap automation, and CI/CD or GitOps workflows using Terraform, Pulumi, Argo CD, or comparable tools.
• Prepare and validate networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, and model-provider connectivity.
• Own technical triage and troubleshooting for partner deployment and production issues.
• Deliver tested releases, patches, and upgrades with automated validation gates.
• Operate metrics, logs, traces, audit logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs for partner environments.
• Partner with GRC and RCF security teams on container hardening and vulnerability scanning.
• Support sustainment of federal deployments through patching, image updates, and ongoing security remediation.
• Maintain deployment guides, environment inventories, operational runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience.
• 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.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Experience hardening production infrastructure and container images.
• Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience with government cloud infrastructure, including AWS GovCloud.
• Experience with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, FIPS-enabled components.
• Experience supporting long-running, stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads.
• Customer-facing, partner engineering, or forward-deployed experience.
• Up to 20% travel may be required.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance.
• 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.