Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Valar Atomics2 months ago
Torrance, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$165k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure with secondary support for Azure workloads.
- Build, manage, scale, troubleshoot, and secure Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment across environments.
- Manage GitHub Enterprise source control workflows, branch policies, repositories, and access controls.
- Write, maintain, and review Terraform modules for multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and incident-response solutions.
- Collaborate with development, security, and platform teams to improve deployment velocity, GitOps practices, security, and developer experience.
- Troubleshoot production issues across cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
- Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud infrastructure engineering role.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
- Working knowledge of Azure services including AKS, Azure DevOps, VNets, and Azure AD.
- Production experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
- Hands-on GitHub Enterprise experience, including repository management, branch protection, and access controls.
- Strong Terraform proficiency, including module design and state management.
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go scripting.
- Understanding of networking concepts including DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and firewalls.
- Experience with Docker and container registries.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar monitoring and observability tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud security practices, IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and Azure Administrator or DevOps Engineer Expert.
- Prior technical military service in the US Air Force or Navy is highly valued.
- Preferred experience includes ArgoCD, Flux, Istio, Linkerd, OPA, Sentinel, regulated environments, and software development or systems engineering.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and equity ownership.
- Comprehensive medical benefits.
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided on site.
- Generous PPE stipend.
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement.
- Fully on-site at the Torrance, California location; relocation assistance is not available.
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About Valar Atomics
Valar Atomics develops factory-built, high-temperature nuclear systems and related fuel fabrication to provide industrial process heat and synthesize gas from air for hydrogen and manufacturing uses. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, it is privately held and building its first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah. The company targets heavy industry and hydrogen production with a model centered on scalable reactor deployment and energy/gas output sales.