Meridian: Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer (Suitland, MD / Hybrid / Senior) [TS/SCI]
Spear AI2 months ago
Suitland, MD, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud architecture.
- Develop infrastructure as code using Pulumi.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Deploy continuously to AWS cloud and air-gapped environments.
- Monitor applications and services with OpenTelemetry, Sentry, and SigNoz.
- Enforce CMMC compliance policies and rules.
- Manage secrets and configuration.
- Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot infrastructure in customer and air-gapped environments.
- Support RHEL/Linux platforms using Kubernetes, Podman, Docker, and Helm.
- Partner with customer engineering teams to integrate, test, and resolve infrastructure issues.
- Travel to customer sites as needed for deployments, upgrades, and mission execution.
Requirements
- Expertise in infrastructure as code using Pulumi or Terraform.
- Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux system administration, and Podman.
- Experience deploying and managing containerized environments with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Podman.
- Expertise in CI/CD and DevSecOps, including GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
- Proficiency with AWS and/or other cloud services.
- Scripting and automation experience with Bash, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
- Proficiency with networking.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity compliance frameworks such as CMMC, PCI, or SOC.
- Familiarity with single sign-on and identity providers such as Authentik and Keycloak.
- Experience deploying to air-gapped environments and self-hosting on bare-metal servers.
- Active Secret clearance is required.
- Preferred experience includes classified DoD or Navy environments, edge computing, maritime systems, sensor platforms, AWS GovCloud, secure cloud environments, government customers, and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Sentry, or SigNoz.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO and dedicated sick time.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Professional development and educational resources.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Onsite, remote, flexible, or hybrid work arrangements depending on the position.
- Relocation assistance depending on the position.
- Referral and performance bonuses.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
- Technology home office setup stipend.
- Professional certification reimbursement depending on the position.
- Full-time exempt salaried position with no overtime eligibility.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Spear AI
Spear AI builds AI/ML-driven hardware, software, and data solutions for national security, including unmanned maritime sensor systems designed for operational deployment across classification levels. The privately held company sells products and implementation services to defense agencies and contractors, with work spanning reinforcement learning, acoustic ML, and cloud architectures. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Washington, DC.