Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal
Trase Systems1 day ago
Remote, United States or Seattle, WA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$180k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, customer-controlled infrastructure, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises deployments.
- Package and validate services and dependencies using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and approved registries while maintaining versioned image inventories and release manifests.
- 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, model-provider connectivity, and restricted or disconnected deployment patterns.
- Troubleshoot partner deployment and production issues across application services, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and networks through validated resolution and operational handoff.
- Deliver tested releases, patches, and upgrades with automated validation gates, compatibility checks, smoke tests, rollback procedures, and release documentation.
- Operate metrics, logs, traces, audit logging, dashboards, alerts, and SLOs while supporting incident response, recovery, capacity planning, and reliability improvements.
- Partner with GRC and security teams on container hardening, vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation, SBOMs, STIG, RMF/ATO, and impact-level requirements.
- Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions, establish secure-release and production-readiness standards, mentor engineers, and convert recurring partner needs into reusable automation.
- Maintain deployment guides, inventories, runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation while providing partner onboarding and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience with hands-on ownership of production systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, production cluster operations, Helm, and infrastructure as code such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Hands-on experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP across compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.
- Experience 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 with CI/CD or GitOps systems, production observability, incident response, releases, upgrades, and rollbacks.
- Strong automation and software engineering skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language.
- Experience hardening infrastructure and container images, investigating vulnerabilities, and delivering validated security fixes.
- Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills with ownership from initial issue report through resolution and handoff.
- Experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools for development, automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.
- Preferred qualifications include national security, defense, federal, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure experience; an active U.S. government clearance; restricted or disconnected environment experience; STIG, NIST, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 experience; AWS GovCloud or Second Front/Game Warden experience; supply-chain security, SBOM, artifact signing, FIPS, Harbor, or policy-as-code experience; and customer-facing or forward-deployed experience.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO with management approval.
- Professional development and continued-learning opportunities.
- Optional 401K, FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
- Full-time role with up to 20% travel required.
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About Trase Systems
Trase Systems builds an enterprise platform for creating, deploying, and operating autonomous AI agents in regulated sectors such as healthcare, national security, and energy. It sells software and services that let large organizations integrate agent applications into existing systems with governance, security, and compliance controls. The company was co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig and is privately held.