DevOps Engineer

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
California, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 20619, USA

Listing for: Scorpion Therapeutics

Full Time, Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-06-18

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, SRE/Site Reliability

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 140000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 140000.00 YEAR

Position Summary

Dev Ops Engineer to bridge software development and operations, delivering reliable, scalable, secure production services. Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and support daily platform operations, including specification, deployment, and qualification of infrastructure systems.

Essential Functions / Responsibilities

Architect and implement automated, reproducible environments using IaC (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible).
Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (testing, container registries, release gates).
Build/manage/optimize Kubernetes workloads (deployments, networking, storage, Helm, resource governance).
Harden container images; enforce least privilege with Kubernetes RBAC and network policies (e.g., NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
Design and operate observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Stack) with dashboards, alerts, and incident processes.
Implement shift-left security, secret management, RBAC, and vulnerability scanning; embed Dev Sec Ops best practices.
Set up observability (logging, metrics, distributed tracing).
Collaborate with developers, QA, product owners, and security; document and lead knowledge sharing.
Document infrastructure/architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures; maintain SOPs and templates.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering or related + 5+ years relevant experience (required).
3+ years in Dev Ops/SRE/infra engineering (required).
CI/CD experience (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI, ArgoCD) (required).
Pharmaceutical/biotech experience (preferred).

Skills

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/ELK), networking fundamentals, Linux, Git, container registries.
Security: image hardening, RBAC, network policies, vulnerability scanning.
IaC:
Terraform/Ansible (preferred); scripting (Bash, Python).
Kubernetes expertise (deployment, networking, storage, Helm).
Strong communication, collaboration, project management.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus and equity award; base pay range and comprehensive benefits package.

Work Location / Schedule

El Segundo, CA or remote (based on location);
Mon–Fri standard business hours with flexibility.

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