Sr Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Requirements
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### Must have:

### - We require a bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, another related engineering discipline, or equivalent professional experience. - We need 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations, with proven ownership of production systems. - We expect demonstrated experience operating and improving production environments in cloud-based settings. - We look for strong Site Reliability Engineering expertise, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and automation focused on reliability. - We require strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, including production workloads in multi-account AWS environments. - We need strong proficiency with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. - We require solid experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. - We expect proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell. - We need a strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols. - We look for the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with teammates and cross-functional colleagues. - We require U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance. - Preferred qualifications include experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. - Preferred qualifications include experience with low-downtime or zero-downtime release strategies such as blue/green, canary, rolling deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback. - Preferred qualifications include experience with observability and incident management tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, or PagerDuty. - Preferred qualifications include experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure. - Preferred qualifications include experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments. - Preferred qualifications include practical use of AI-assisted development or automation tools with a strong understanding of validation, review, privacy, and security considerations. - Preferred qualifications include an active U.S. Government security clearance.

Responsibilities:
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- We lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and supporting infrastructure services. - We design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery. - We build, run, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services. - We troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, deployments, networking, performance, reliability, and production operations. - We strengthen service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and overall operational readiness. - We design and operate highly available, resilient, observable, and secure infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments. - We partner with engineering teams to improve deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support. - We participate in an on-call rotation to support production reliability and incident response. - We use AI development tools to accelerate design, implementation, testing, documentation, and operational workflows while preserving quality, reliability, and security. - We help define shared engineering standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including validation, documentation, and review practices.
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Company:
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We are Vantor, building the next frontier of spatial intelligence to help decision makers and operators understand what is happening now and prepare for what comes next. Our Platform DevOps team is growing, and we are looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability Engineering experience to support the build, deployment, reliability, and operations of the Vantor Hub software suite. This is a hybrid role with three days per week on-site in Westminster, Colorado, and our Platform Infrastructure organization works on a unified platform that powers applications used by our customers. We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, pet insurance, and incentive eligibility. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and equal opportunity employment.
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