Senior Dev Ops Engineer

About the team

We build and operate the platforms that power our enterprise AI/ML
, data engineering
, and reporting/BI workloads. We run in a regulated Google Cloud environment (FedRAMP High), where reliability, security, and operational rigor are non‑negotiable.

We are hiring a seasoned Dev Ops engineer who can join our team and be self-sufficient from day one
—owning infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security guardrails that keep our AI + data + reporting systems secure, compliant, and reliable.

You will serve as a hands‑on engineer and mentor others: you’ll standardize environments, reduce toil, harden delivery pipelines, and improve incident response—while working inside the constraints of a FedRAMP High environment.

• Operate and continuously improve platform reliability for batch + streaming pipelines, reporting SLAs, and ML workloads.
• Define and run SLOs/SLIs
  , alerting standards, and incident response processes (on‑call, postmortems, measurable follow‑ups).
• Build runbooks, dashboards, and automation that reduce MTTR and recurring incidents.

• Design and maintain CI/CD for services, pipelines, infra, and (where applicable) model artifacts.
• Implement safe deployment patterns: progressive delivery, automated rollbacks, change controls, and release governance appropriate for regulated environments.
• Own “golden paths” and templates so engineering teams can ship reliably without reinventing the wheel.

• Design and maintain Terraform modules and IaC standards for repeatable GCP provisioning.
• Operate GCP org/folder/project structures, network patterns, and environment separation (dev/stage/prod) aligned to compliance requirements.
• Establish secure baseline configurations and guardrails (policy‑as‑code where relevant).

• Implement and operate security controls aligned to FedRAMP High / NIST 800‑53 High baseline concepts
  : IAM hardening, audit logging, encryption, vulnerability management, secure configuration, incident handling, and continuous monitoring.
• Partner with compliance/security stakeholders to support audit readiness through evidence automation
  , control mapping, and operational documentation.

• GKE platform operations: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, node pools, workload identity, RBAC, network policy, resource governance.
• Centralized logging/monitoring and audit: alert hygiene, retention, routing, and security event visibility.
• Secrets and key management:
  Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, key rotation patterns, access controls.
• Network controls for regulated environments: private connectivity patterns, service perimeters, and controlled egress.
• 10+ years in Dev Ops, platform engineering, or production operations for critical systems.
• Proven experience operating in regulated cloud environments (FedRAMP High and/or similarly constrained government high‑side environments).
• Strong hands‑on capability with:
• GCP operations (projects, IAM/service accounts, networking fundamentals)
• Terraform (or equivalent IaC) at scale
• CI/CD systems and release automation
• Observability (logs/metrics/traces), alerting, and incident response
• Experience working in GCP Big Data Deployments (e.g., Big Query, Big Table, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Managed Instance Groups, Airflow, GSUtil, Cloud Composer, Vertex AI & ML tools)
• Proficiency in Linux and at least one of:
  Python, SQL
  , plus shell scripting (e.g., Zsh, Bash, Power Shell).
• Experience working with BI, ETL, Data Management Tools (e.g., dbt, Power BI, Tableau)
• Demonstrated ability to work independently: take ambiguous problems, drive execution end‑to‑end, communicate clearly, and land durable solutions.
• Knowledge of API development (REST API)
• Experience creating, hardening Docker images and Compose files
• Experience with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and cloud network segmentation
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment

• Experience supporting AI/ML…