[Hiring] Staff DevOps Engineer @Nextiva

Role Description

Nextiva is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our platform engineering practice, with deep technical ownership of Kubernetes infrastructure. This is an individual-contributor technical leadership role. You’ll help define how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software by establishing platform architecture, standards, and paved roads that make infrastructure easier to consume without sacrificing reliability, security, or scalability.

Nextiva operates a globally available, redundant microservices architecture and positions reliability, API accessibility, and adaptability as key elements of its technology platform. This role will help evolve the infrastructure behind that environment while supporting the growing needs of engineering and AI/ML workloads.

What you’ll do

• Own the architecture and roadmap for our multi-cluster Kubernetes platform, including scaling, upgrades, and multi-tenancy.
• Establish GitOps-based deployment workflows using technologies such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Design and evolve an internal developer platform that provides engineering teams with self-service access to compute, environments, and observability.
• Architect service mesh, networking, and ingress strategies for reliable and secure communication across services.
• Define platform standards for GPU and ML workload scheduling and resource management on Kubernetes.
• Partner with AI/ML teams on infrastructure requirements for training and inference workloads.
• Drive capacity planning and cost optimization across Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
• Set technical direction and review architecture for platform-impacting changes across engineering.
• Define and own platform reliability through SLOs, incident-response leadership, and postmortems.
• Mentor experienced engineers and represent platform engineering in cross-organizational technical decisions.
• Influence teams toward common platform standards without relying on direct reporting authority.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including cluster architecture, upgrades, and multi-tenant environments.
• Strong hands-on experience operating cloud infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Deep understanding of container orchestration, networking, ingress, and service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium.
• Experience with middleware and messaging technologies such as Nginx, Kafka, and Redis at scale.
• Experience with GPU scheduling, node pools, and resource quotas supporting ML/AI training or inference workloads in GKE and EKS.
• Experience designing internal developer platforms or paved-road tooling for engineering organizations.
• Strong Linux, networking, storage, and security fundamentals.
• Experience operating observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry at platform scale.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, calculate, forecast, and optimize cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure costs, including evaluating the cost implications of architecture, capacity, compute, and resource-allocation decisions.
• Experience with capacity planning and resource optimization, balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure cost.

Requirements

• Kubernetes policy-as-code and security tooling such as OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or image-scanning technologies.
• AWS, GCP, Azure, CKA, or CKS certifications.
• AI literacy.
• Experience designing infrastructure capable of supporting ML/AI training or inference workloads.
• Understanding of GPU scheduling, resource allocation, node pools, quotas, reliability, and cost considerations for AI workloads.
• Ability to work with AI/ML engineering teams to translate workload requirements into scalable Kubernetes and cloud platform capabilities.

Benefits

• Major Health insurance for you, your legal partner, and children under 25 years, including Vision and Dental coverage.
• Life Insurance (24 times your monthly salary).
• Newly hired full-time employees at Nextiva receive 10 personal days before their first anniversary, 12 vacation days on their first anniversary, and 5 personal days annually thereafter in addition to vacation time.
• Enjoy a 30-day Christmas bonus, 50% vacation premium, company-matched food vouchers (1 UMA/month), and a 13% matched savings fund (capped at 1.3x annual UMA).
• Employee Assistance Program and comprehensive wellness initiatives.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement.