[Hiring] Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer @Trase Systems

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.
• Senior engineers will independently deliver and support complex partner deployments.
• Staff engineers will lead architecture across partner environments, establish reusable standards, and mentor engineers.

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, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review.
• Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.
• Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, including adapting cloud-native products for these deployment models.
• 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 for production services.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.
• Experience hardening production infrastructure and container images, investigating vulnerability findings, and delivering validated security fixes with security teams.
• Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills, with ownership of technical issues from initial report through validated resolution and operational handoff.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools to accelerate development, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.

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, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 deployment requirements, as applicable to assigned programs.
• 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 and transferring operational knowledge.
• Up to 20% travel may be required.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows.
• 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.