Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
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About the Role
You will build and operate infrastructure for Red Cell Federal and Red Cell Partners portfolio companies, with a focus on federal and national security programs. You will package and validate services with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, create infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows, troubleshoot partner issues, deliver tested releases, run observability, and work with security teams on hardening and vulnerability remediation. Seniors deliver complex deployments independently; Staff also lead architecture and mentor.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE or DevOps experience
- Deep experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes
- Strong Helm and infrastructure as code experience such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Hands-on experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience deploying in customer-controlled, private-cloud or on-premises environments
- Strong networking, DNS, IAM and secrets management understanding
- Experience with CI/CD or GitOps, observability and incident response
- Python, Go, TypeScript or similar programming skills
- Experience hardening infrastructure and container images
- Strong partner-facing communication
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools
Responsibilities
- Build and operate partner environments across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premises infrastructure
- Package and validate services using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
- Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and CI/CD or GitOps workflows
- Prepare networking, IAM, secrets, certificates and storage
- Triage and troubleshoot deployment and production issues
- Deliver tested releases, patches and upgrades with validation gates and rollback procedures
- Operate metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts and SLOs
- Partner with security teams on container hardening, vulnerability scanning and CVE remediation
- Support sustainment of federal deployments
- Maintain deployment guides and runbooks
- Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions and mentor engineers
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K, FSA and equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux
- Bonus and equity