Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance

Vantor•Westminster, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Vantor 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 and works with a team responsible for a unified platform powering customer applications. The Platform DevOps team designs, develops, secures, and operates custom and third-party solutions deployed across commercial and government AWS environments, supporting Vantor engineers in securely building, testing, and releasing software. The engineer will improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of Vantor Hub and its supporting infrastructure. The role involves hands-on work with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, monitoring platforms, and incident response, as well as influencing engineering standards and reliability practices. The successful candidate will independently lead complex technical initiatives, mentor others, and establish best practices for production readiness, service reliability, automation, and cloud operations. This hybrid position requires three days per week onsite with colleagues in Westminster, Colorado, and participation in an on-call rotation currently averaging approximately one week every twelve weeks. The position also involves using AI development tools to accelerate software and infrastructure design, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational workflows. AI-assisted outputs must be validated through peer review, testing, and security practices, with contributions to shared standards for responsible use. Applicants must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee) and hold an active U.S. Government security clearance. Certain roles may also be subject to U.S. export control laws.

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 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 tools such as 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 the team on-call rotation, currently approximately one week every twelve weeks, supporting production reliability and incident response.
Use AI development tools to support 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, validating outputs through peer review, testing, and security practices.