Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (Federal)

Location: Seattle, WA or McLean, VA preferred, or remote within the USA. Up to 20% travel may be required. U.S. citizenship is required; an active U.S. government security clearance is strongly preferred.

Salary: $180,000–$240,000 plus bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is an incubation and investment firm building technology companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security; Trase develops enterprise AI deployment, management, and optimization solutions.

What you will do

• Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, customer-controlled infrastructure, private clouds, and on-premises systems.
• Package and validate Trase OS services with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, approved registries, release manifests, and image inventories.
• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, cluster bootstrap automation, and CI/CD or GitOps workflows using Terraform, Pulumi, Argo CD, or comparable tools.
• Prepare networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, model-provider connectivity, and restricted or disconnected deployment patterns.
• Deliver releases, patches, upgrades, observability, incident response, vulnerability remediation, and production support with validation, rollback, and documentation.
• Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions, establish secure-release and production-readiness standards, mentor engineers, and turn recurring partner needs into reusable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience with hands-on production ownership.
• Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, production cluster operations, and Helm.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review.
• Hands-on experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services.
• Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments.
• Strong knowledge of networking, DNS, ingress, load balancing, certificates, IAM, secrets management, persistent storage, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with CI/CD or GitOps releases, upgrades, rollbacks, observability, incident response, production hardening, container security, vulnerability findings, and validated remediation.
• Strong automation and software engineering skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, across application and infrastructure layers.
• Strong partner-facing communication and troubleshooting skills, including ownership from initial report through validated resolution and operational handoff.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted coding and engineering tools for development, automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.

Nice to have

• SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or government programs.
• Active U.S. government security clearance and experience with restricted, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with STIG, NIST, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO, DoD IL4/IL5/IL6, AWS GovCloud, or Second Front/Game Warden.
• Experience with software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, FIPS-enabled components, Harbor, or policy as code.
• Experience supporting stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads and customer-facing or forward-deployed partner engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a career track and potential for advancement.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave, unlimited PTO with management approval, and professional development opportunities.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, mental health benefits, and GLP-1 solutions.
• Work supports federal and national-security programs across commercial and government environments, with up to 20% travel.