Senior DevOps Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)

Striveworks • Schofield Barracks, HI

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data, models, and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers, Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective. With Striveworks, organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to take ownership of specific product deployments by maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing our on-premises and cloud computing environments. You will play a crucial role in the successful deployment of our software solutions to clients. You will be responsible for executing technical aspects of implementation projects and for ensuring the seamless integration, customization, and configuration of our software. You will be responsible for maintaining Striveworks’ software deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies. Your expertise will play a critical role for the company as we deploy new instances of Striveworks’ AI operations (AIOps) capabilities to customer infrastructure. You are right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and you enjoy pushing the boundaries of your capabilities.

Your day-to-day will include:
Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults

The Senior DevOps Engineer works on the DevOps team. You will be responsible for monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects. You will also act as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks’ solutions. You will work alongside a team of software engineers and data scientists to help them deploy and operate their work as functional products, learning from them so that building effective AI solutions becomes second nature. You might provide guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members. You will directly contribute to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients. You will be expected to wear multiple hats and to step into vacuums where improvements are needed, and you will be given the breadth to explore new technologies and solutions.

This position offers a hybrid/on-site work environment at customer sites at Schofield Barracks in Oߵahu, Hawaiߵi. You will be expected to travel up to 30% of the time, including some international travel.

Requirements

• 6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in Python and/or Golang programming or other general-purpose programming languages
• Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
• Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
• Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
• Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
• Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
• Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
• The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults in environments where customers are present
• Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
• US citizenship

Nice To Haves

• Experience with DOD networking, tools, infrastructure, security requirements, and policies
• Proficiency with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53, CMMC, and ICD 503
• Experience with software deployments to on-premises and cloud-based unclassified, CUI, and classified networks within the DOD
• Experience with DevSecOps/DevOps and CI/CD for the administration and deployment of GPU-enabled servers
• Experience deploying or maintaining Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects
• Experience with network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) technologies
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native applications and services in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) impact environments

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of specific product deployments by maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing on-premises and cloud computing environments.
• Execute technical aspects of implementation projects and ensure seamless integration, customization, and configuration of software.
• Maintain Striveworks’ software deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Deploy new instances of Striveworks’ AI operations (AIOps) capabilities to customer infrastructure.
• Automate IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure.
• Deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Work with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform.
• Perform software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks.
• Handle incident response and initial triage of critical system faults.
• Monitor, automate, and improve software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects.
• Act as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure efficient functioning of Striveworks’ solutions.
• Work alongside software engineers and data scientists to help them deploy and operate their work as functional products.
• Provide guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members.
• Directly contribute to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients.
• Wear multiple hats and step into vacuums where improvements are needed.
• Explore new technologies and solutions.

Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees