Staff DevOps Engineer

1 day ago

Berkeley, CA, USAStaff+

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, validation, and decommissioning.
Extend the internal developer platform to new teams and toolchains by defining repeatable integration patterns.
Design Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, lifecycle management, configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle.
Operate and improve infrastructure as code, CI/CD, GitOps delivery systems, monitoring, alerting, and service-level objectives.
Lead complex incident response and postmortems, driving failures toward structural fixes.
Build automation and agent workflows with appropriate guardrails and human review.
Create runbooks, tooling, design documents, decision records, and technical standards.
Provide technical leadership in design reviews and platform initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and delegate effectively.
Partner with IT, Security, Data, and operations teams.
Implement security and compliance controls, automate audit evidence, and model cloud cost and capacity.

7–10 years of related experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
Demonstrated experience migrating production systems from legacy infrastructure to a new platform, including sequencing, coexistence, cutover, and rollback.
Hands-on depth across AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code, including solving complex infrastructure problems through evaluation of competing factors.
Experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems in complex, multi-system environments.
Experience leading incident response and converting operational failures into structural fixes.
Experience directing technical work through others, mentoring engineers, driving design reviews, and collaborating across areas of expertise.
Ability to evaluate AI-generated infrastructure code and operational output for correctness, safety, and appropriate shortcuts.

Relocation assistance is available.
The position is onsite.
Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package.
The company covers 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents, starting from day one.
At least 12 weeks of paid leave is provided for new parents, including up to 20 weeks for birthing parents.
Generous vacation policies are available.