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Vannevar Labs builds AI systems for the Department of Defense's most consequential missions, with 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command. The company operates a forward-deployed model where engineers, product teams, and leadership embed directly with operational units supporting great power competition, combat operations, and counter-narcotics missions.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will own build and deployment automation for the company's platform. Your decisions will have significant impact on the company's future. You will work to ensure systems operate reliably in both commercial and high-side (classified) environments at scale, making technical trade-offs and communicating them effectively with teammates.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop, maintain, and ensure overall platform health, scaling, and capacity planning
- Create self-service tools and automate processes to improve data engineering efficiency
- Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize platform state and enhance SRE practices
- Play a critical role in implementing a secure, robust, and highly available DevOps pipeline
- Collaborate with the team to expand a multi-account AWS environment
- Automate build and deployment processes
The role is 100% remote-first with the ability to work from anywhere in the US, though the position requires up to 50% travel/commute to the DC customer site. All full-time employees have WeWork access.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or software engineering
- Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud technology
- Experience with PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring tools
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code technologies (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Proficiency with containerization technologies like Docker
- Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
- Experience working in agile scrum environments and ability to work independently
- Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
- Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities
- U.S. Citizenship required (access to U.S.-only data systems and export-controlled data)
- TS/SCI with FSP Clearance required
- Ability to commute/travel to DC customer site up to 50% of the time
NICE-TO-HAVE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with AWS GovCloud
- Experience in data processing with the Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community
- Experience building CI/CD systems in GitHub Actions
- Passion for DevSecOps
- Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Experience hardening and delivering software applications
- Knowledge of modern web services architectures
- Experience with relational database systems and SQL
- Knowledge of advanced networking concepts (overlays, VPNs, zero trust networks)
- Strong collaboration and negotiation skills for multi-functional projects
