DevOps Engineer (Cleared)

ConductorAI•Washington, DC

21h•$180,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness and ability to take ownership of hard problems. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow. You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy. You'll have an opportunity to shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments, and to confront interesting infrastructure problems around deploying LLMs and other large models efficiently and robustly. You'll help drive our system's numerous accreditations, including FedRAMP, IL5, and IL6.

Requirements

US DoD security clearance - minimum Secret
4+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer in high-stakes customer or company environment
Experience leading and collaborating with other engineers
On-site experience with senior customer stakeholders to outline infrastructure requirements and deploy software
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Proactive mindset, with a knack for identifying opportunities and taking initiative
Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
Strong experience with system design and strategy, including multi-cloud software deployment
Knowledge of cybersecurity principles/best practices, especially FedRAMP and NIST 800-53

Nice To Haves

Experience with LLMs is a plus

Responsibilities

Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application
Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed
Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs.
Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem.
Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and its dependencies as painless and robust as possible.
Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP.
As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve.