Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance

Vantor•Westminster, CO

4d•$128,000 - $187,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Vantor’s Platform DevOps team is seeking a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability Engineering experience to support the build, deployment, reliability, and operations of the Vantor Hub software suite. The role is part of the Platform Infrastructure organization, which provides a unified platform for applications used by Vantor customers. The team designs, develops, secures, and operates custom and third-party software deployed across commercial and government AWS environments, and works with Vantor engineers to build, test, and release software securely and efficiently. The engineer will improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of Vantor Hub and its supporting infrastructure. The work involves hands-on use of AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, monitoring platforms, and incident response processes, as well as influencing engineering standards and reliability practices across teams. The role calls for independent ownership of complex technical initiatives, mentorship, and contributions to best practices for production readiness, service reliability, automation, and cloud operations. The position is hybrid, with three days per week on-site in Westminster, Colorado. Participation in a team on-call rotation is required, currently approximately one week every twelve weeks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
At least 8 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations, with demonstrated ownership of production systems.
Demonstrated experience owning, operating, and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.
Strong experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and reliability-focused automation.
Strong proficiency with Amazon Web Services, including operating production workloads in multi-account AWS environments.
Strong proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols.
Ability to communicate and collaborate with team members and colleagues.
Active U.S. Government security clearance.
Must be a U.S. Person, defined in the posting as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Nice To Haves

Experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and business-continuity planning.
Experience with zero-downtime or low-downtime deployment strategies, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.
Experience with observability and incident management platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty, or similar tools.
Experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure.
Experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments.
Practical experience using AI-assisted development or automation tools to improve engineering workflows, with an understanding of validation, review, privacy, and security considerations.

Responsibilities

Lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and related infrastructure services.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.
Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.
Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.
Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and overall operational readiness.
Design and operate highly available, resilient, observable, and secure infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments.
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support.
Participate in a team on-call rotation, currently approximately one week every twelve weeks, supporting production reliability and incident response.
Leverage AI development tools for software design, implementation, testing, and documentation while maintaining reliability, security, and engineering quality.
Contribute to shared engineering standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including validation practices, documentation expectations, and review patterns.
Use AI-assisted engineering tools for infrastructure automation, documentation, runbook development, test scaffolding, incident analysis, and repeatable operational workflows; validate outputs through peer review, testing, and security practices.