Senior DevOps Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
Striveworks · Remote or Tacoma, Washington, United States · Seattle-Tacoma, WA
Defenseremotesenior$185k–$230k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build assurance layer sustaining hundreds of deployed AI models in real-world use.
- Deploy and keep systems reliable across commercial and classified DOD networks.
- Solve field reliability where connectivity is a luxury, not a given.
What they offer
- Competitive base salary
- Equity grants
- Cash bonuses
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
- HSA and FSA plans
- 401(k) plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
Ideal candidate
Ownership-driven engineer who thrives debugging complex systems in constrained field environments and enjoys direct customer mission work. You value trust, candor, and building reliable systems that matter.
Requirements
- 6+ years hands-on experience deploying microservices in Kubernetes
- Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
- Helm chart and Kustomize development/deployment
- Python and/or Golang programming
- Automation and IaC e.g. Terraform
- Cloud infrastructure: AWS and Azure
- Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems including networking and bash scripting
- Active Secret or above US security clearance and US citizenship
- Must be located in Pacific or Mountain time zone if remote
- Willing to travel up to 25%
- remote policy
- Remote or hybrid/on-site at customer site; if remote must be in Pacific or Mountain time zone
Lab profile
About Striveworks
Delivers trusted AI systems and assurance for federal missions, sustaining models in production.
What they build
- AI assurance and monitoring platform
- Agentic AI systems
- Production federal AI solutions
Known for
- Production AI deployment
- Model monitoring and drift management
- Federal and defense missions
- Long-term system sustainment
Key facts
- Founded in 2018
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