Staff DevOps Engineer, Enterprise Data & AI

Radiant•El Segundo, CA

About The Position

We're building a new team to own Radiant's internal data infrastructure, executive analytics, and AI capabilities. As the Staff DevOps Engineer, you'll own the infrastructure that powers our data platform—ensuring reliability, security, and scalability for the systems that connect Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Recruiting. You'll work closely with the Software Engineering team on shared Databricks infrastructure, ensuring that operational analytics and reactor simulation workloads coexist smoothly. You'll also own CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and security compliance for our data systems.

Requirements

7+ years of DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience
AWS experience—EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and related services (Radiant is AWS-based)
CI/CD pipeline development—GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
Infrastructure as code—Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
Scripting and automation—Python, Bash, or similar

Nice To Haves

Databricks administration experience—workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, SQL Warehouses
Experience in regulated environments—SOC 2, FedRAMP, ITAR, or similar compliance frameworks
Experience with data pipeline monitoring and observability (Datadog, Monte Carlo, etc.)
Familiarity with Fivetran, Airbyte, or similar data integration tools
Experience supporting data engineering or analytics teams

Responsibilities

Own infrastructure: Deploy and manage Databricks, Fivetran, Airbyte, and supporting infrastructure on AWS
Administer Databricks: Manage workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, and SQL Warehouses (shared responsibility with SWE team)
Build CI/CD pipelines: Automate deployments for dbt models, connector configurations, and dashboard updates
Monitor and alert: Set up Datadog (or similar) for pipeline monitoring, data quality alerts, and infrastructure health
Ensure security compliance: Implement infrastructure that meets ITAR/EAR requirements; work with IT/Security on access controls, audit logging, and network configuration
Support the team: Enable Data Platform Engineers to ship quickly with reliable, well-documented infrastructure

Benefits

Health/dental/vision
401(k)
Flexible PTO
Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
Medical: 100% premium coverage for base Silver level plan for employee + 50% premium coverage for dependents. Platinum plans available.
One Medical: Sponsored memberships for eligible employees and their dependents.
Vision: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan + 50% for dependents.
Dental: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan (including orthodontia) + 50% for dependents.
Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.