DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems. You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy. You'll have an opportunity to shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments, and to confront interesting infrastructure problems around deploying LLMs and other large models efficiently and robustly. You'll help drive our system's numerous accreditations, including FedRAMP, IL5, IL6, and beyond.

🏢 About conductorai

conductorai is a company focused on developing advanced AI solutions, particularly in the context of mission-critical workflows and classified environments.

🎯 The Role

You'll be working on a small tight-knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow. You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application
• Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed
• Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs.
• Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem.
• Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and its dependencies as painless and robust as possible.
• Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP.
• As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve.

📌 Required Qualifications

• US DoD security clearance - minimum Secret
• 4+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer in high-stakes customer or company environment
• Experience leading and collaborating with other engineers
• On-site experience with senior customer stakeholders to outline infrastructure requirements and deploy software
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proactive mindset, with a knack for identifying opportunities and taking initiative
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
• Strong experience with system design and strategy, including multi-cloud software deployment
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles/best practices, especially FedRAMP and NIST 800-53

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with LLMs is a plus

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact. The base salary range for this role is between $180K-$240K with the opportunity for significant equity.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

US DoD security clearance - minimum Secret required.