About the Job
Build, Deploy, and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World
With Striveworks, organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striv...
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Striveworks, you will be challenged—and trusted—on day one to take ownership of specific product deployments by maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing our on-premises and cloud computing environments. You will play a crucial role in the successful deployment of our software solutions t...
Key Responsibilities
You are right for this opportunity if you value and possess technical expertise and you enjoy pushing the boundaries of your capabilities. You will be responsible for maintaining Striveworks’ software deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) methodologies.
Automating IaC to manage virtual machines and deploy containers, services, and other infrastructure; applying your expertise to deploy custom Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, GCP, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments
Working with platform developers, other DevOps teammates, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
Software deployments to commercial and, later, unclassified, CUI, and classified Department of Defense (DOD) networks
Incident response and initial triage of critical system faults
The Senior DevOps Engineer works on the DevOps team. You will be responsible for monitoring, automating, and improving software reliability, performance, and availability for various projects. You will also act as a liaison between platform developers and customer-facing teams, taking on operational tasks to ensure the efficient functioning of Striveworks’ solutions. You will work alongside a team of software engineers and data scientists to help them deploy and operate their work as functional products, learning from them so that building effective AI solutions becomes second nature. You may provide guidance and leadership to junior DevOps team members.
You will directly contribute to the success of mission-critical systems within national security and commercial clients. You will be expected to wear multiple hats and to step into vacuums where improvements are needed, and you will be given the breadth to explore new technologies and solutions.
This position offers a fully remote work environment, or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin, TX. You will be expected to travel up to 20% of the time.
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.
Required Skills & Abilities
6+ years of direct, hands-on experience in:
Python and/or Golang programming, or other general purpose programming languages
Microservice deployment in Kubernetes
Diagnosing and resolving issues within containerized environments
Helm Chart and Kustomizations development/deployment
Automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
Cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack)
Managing and troubleshooting Linux systems (e.g., RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
The ability to work cross functionally to define requirements and build solutions for customer use cases of the platform
The ability to respond professionally and competently to incident reports and triage critical system faults
Active Secret (or above) US security clearance
Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship
We are very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications, and we appreciate and consider the addition of:
Experience with US federal information system security policies, including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), NIST 800-171, NIST 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 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 impact (DDIL) environments
The anticipated
