Striveworks - DevOps Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
Requirements
• 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in software, DevOps, site reliability, or systems engineering • Customer-centric technical leadership that combines deep technical expertise with executive presence to lead cross-functional requirement gathering, manage professional incident response across diverse environments, and champion organizational interests to external stakeholders • Production Kubernetes: Expertise in deploying and diagnosing microservices within K8s (using Helm and kubectl) • Observability and monitoring: Experience with comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logs, and traces) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to ensure system reliability and performance visibility • Application assurance: Ability to design and execute testing strategies to validate application functionality, diagnose issues, and perform root cause analysis—implementing effective long-term fixes to improve stability and performance • Infrastructure-as-code: Deep proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools to manage virtual machines (VMs) and containerized services • Programming proficiency: Strong scripting and coding skills in Bash and/or Python for building custom automation and tooling • Linux mastery: Ability to manage and rapidly troubleshoot Linux systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, Alpine) • Active Secret (or above) US security clearance • Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship • The Wish List • The Wish List • We are very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications, and we appreciate and consider the addition of: • 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 Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (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 • The anticipated base pay range for this position is $140,000 to $165,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses.
Responsibilities
• Customer-centric engineering: Partnering directly with users and stakeholders to translate mission requirements into technical solutions, ensuring that Striveworks’ AI capabilities are fully integrated into their existing workflows. • Customer-centric engineering: • Tactical deployment and automation: Building and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (IaC) to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments, (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem). • Tactical deployment and automation: • Integration and troubleshooting: Acting as the primary technical point of contact for troubleshooting complex integrations, you’ll be deep in the logs, debugging containerized microservices and network and application configurations to unblock the customer. • Integration and troubleshooting: • Product evolution: Feeding field insights back to our core product teams. You are the eyes and ears of the engineering org, identifying friction points in the installation process and automating them away. • Product evolution: • Mission execution: Leading software deployments on unclassified, CUI, and classified networks, ensuring that our AI remains reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in dynamic environments. • Mission execution: • The Right Fit • The Right Fit • In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below, we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust. • Collectively, we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance, we geek out about the potential of our contributions, and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally, we value taking ownership, having agency, and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.
Benefits
• Medical/dental/vision insurance • Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance • HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans • Paid parental leave • Check us out on Built In!
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