Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer (Federal)

Location: Seattle, WA or McLean, VA (preferred), or remote within the USA. Up to 20% travel may be required.

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

Company

hirify.global develops an end-to-end enterprise AI platform for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI systems, including agentic applications for healthcare, energy, and national security.

What you will do

• Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, private networks, customer-controlled infrastructure, and on-premises environments.
• Package and validate hirify.global OS services with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, registries, release manifests, and image inventories.
• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, cluster bootstrap automation, and CI/CD or GitOps workflows.
• Prepare networking, IAM, secrets, certificates, storage, registries, model-provider connectivity, and restricted or disconnected deployments.
• Own technical triage, production support, releases, upgrades, rollback procedures, observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Partner with GRC and security teams on hardening, vulnerability remediation, SBOMs, STIG/RMF/ATO requirements, documentation, onboarding, and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations.
• Strong Helm and infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools, 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 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, infrastructure hardening, container security, and validated vulnerability fixes.
• Strong automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, plus partner-facing communication and end-to-end troubleshooting ownership.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted coding and engineering tools.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting national security, defense, federal agencies, or government programs, with an active U.S. government security clearance.
• Experience in restricted-network, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with STIG, NIST, FedRAMP, RMF/ATO, or DoD IL4/IL5/IL6 requirements.
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Second Front/Game Warden, software supply-chain security, SBOMs, artifact signing, FIPS, Harbor, or policy as code.
• Experience supporting stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads and multiple customer organizations.

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 at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO with management approval, professional development opportunities, and continued learning.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits.