Senior DevOps Engineer at Ontic in Austin, Texas, United States

Job description

• Application
• Who We Are
• We’re seeking a senior DevOps Engineering leader to architect and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms across AWS and AWS GovCloud, including FedRAMP-authorized environments. This person will drive zero-trust security, Terraform and GitOps automation, observability, reliability, disaster recovery, and cost governance for both multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments. They’ll also provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Security and Engineering to evolve Ontic’s platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Platform Architecture
• Lead the design and governance of scalable, resilient, Kubernetes platforms across approved cloud environments and FedRAMP authorization boundaries
• Define standardized blueprints for multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments
• Architect high-availability, multi-AZ, and disaster recovery strategies aligned with RTO/RPO objectives
• System inventory, authorized-boundary ownership, significant-change assessment, and approved-cloud-boundary wording.
• DevSecOps & Zero-Trust Security
• Establish secure-by-design cloud architecture and workload identity models
• Enforce RBAC, IAM governance, encryption standards, and least-privilege principles
• Integrate supply-chain security, policy enforcement, and compliance validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure infrastructure meets applicable FedRAMP and enterprise security-control requirements.
• Vulnerability remediation, POA&M/exception tracking, and incident-response exercises.
• AI-Enabled Operations & Platform Intelligence
• Implement AIOps capabilities for intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, and controlled remediation through approved runbooks, policy gates, and auditable change controls.
• Enhance observability maturity using metrics, logs, and distributed tracing
• Support AI/ML workload infrastructure, including scalable compute and secure model deployment
• Leverage automation and analytics to reduce MTTR and operational toil
• Infrastructure Automation & GitOps
• Drive infrastructure standardization using Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows
• Design safe deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)
• Improve infrastructure drift detection and environment reproducibility
• Reliability & Performance Engineering
• Define SLO/SLI frameworks and reliability benchmarks
• Optimize autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler) and workload efficiency
• Improve performance and scalability of distributed stateful systems
• Backup restoration and recurring disaster-recovery testing against RTO/RPO.
• FinOps & Cost Governance
• Implement cloud cost observability and allocation strategies
• Optimize compute, storage, and networking costs across multi-cloud environments
• Establish cost governance models aligned with business growth
• Leadership & Governance
• Mentor senior engineers and promote DevOps culture across teams
• Drive architecture reviews and production readiness assessments
• Partner with security and engineering to align platform strategy with enterprise objectives

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform Engineering in enterprise or high-scale SaaS environments.
• Proven experience in architecting and operating production environments in AWS and AWS GovCloud; GCP or OCI experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining a FedRAMP Moderate/High production environment, including continuous monitoring, vulnerability remediation, incident response, configuration management, and audit evidence.
• Experience owning infrastructure patterns and changes within the authorized boundary, including system inventory, data-flow implications, inherited controls, and third-party services.
• Strong experience designing and operating AWS Landing Zone architectures, including multi-account governance and guardrails.
• Advanced Terraform experience building reusable, secure infrastructure modules and standardized environments.
• Deep understanding of AWS and AWS GovCloud networking, including VPC design, segmentation, routing, private connectivity, and security controls.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes-based platform design and large-scale cluster operations.
• Strong experience implementing GitOps workflows (ArgoCD) and CI/CD automation (Jenkins, GitLab).
• Hands-on production experience with distributed systems, including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, and ArangoDB.
• Strong understanding of IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and zero-trust access models.
• Experience implementing enterprise observability stacks.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms and dedicated workload environments.
• Exposure to service mesh and secure east-west traffic management.
• Exposure to AIOps is a plus

Skills

Required

• AWS
• AWS GovCloud
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• GitOps
• ArgoCD
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch
• Kafka
• Redis

Preferred

• GCP
• OCI
• service mesh
• AIOps

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits
• 401k
• Stock Options
• HSA Contribution
• Learning Stipend
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Quarterly company ME (mental escape) days
• Generous Parental Leave policy
• Home Office Stipend
• Mobile Phone Reimbursement
• Home Internet Reimbursement for Remote Employees
• Anniversary & Milestone Celebrations
• Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes a bonus plan, equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Ontic. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset.