Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
A hands-on Senior/Staff DevOps engineer who designs and operates the multi-environment platform infrastructure for Trase OS, an enterprise AI platform — building portable, secure deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, private/hybrid cloud, and on-prem using Kubernetes, Docker/Helm, and Terraform/Pulumi, plus CI/CD, GitOps, and observability.
- Compensation
- $180K–$240K / yr
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience with ownership of production systems
- Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations
- Strong experience with Helm and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform or Pulumi), including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review
- Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, with working knowledge of compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed services across all three
- Experience deploying and operating software in customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments
- Strong understanding of networking, DNS, ingress, load balancing, certificates, IAM, secrets management, persistent storage, and service-to-service security
- Experience building and operating CI/CD or GitOps systems with releases, upgrades, rollbacks, metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerts
- Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language
- Experience designing secure, portable production infrastructure, including hardening and abstracting cloud-specific managed services
- Experience converting a cloud-native SaaS product into a customer-hosted, private-cloud, or on-premises deployment model
- Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools
Nice to have
- Experience operating in restricted-network, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments
- Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, or FedRAMP
- Experience with service mesh, policy as code, admission controls, software supply-chain security, artifact signing, or SBOMs
- Hands-on experience with Crossplane or meaningful contributions to CNCF projects
- Experience supporting long-running, stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads
- Customer-facing engineering, solutions architecture, or forward-deployed engineering experience
Full description
About Us
Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.
About Trase
Co-founded in 2023 by Joe Laws and Grant Verstandig, Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.
About the Role
As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer on Platform Infrastructure, you will design and operate the infrastructure that supports Trase OS across Trase-hosted and customer-controlled environments. You will build secure, repeatable deployment patterns spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.
This is a hands-on engineering role with broad ownership. You will work across application packaging, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (IaC), networking, security, observability, release engineering, and production reliability. You will also partner directly with engineering and customer-facing teams to turn deployment requirements into systems that can be installed, upgraded, operated, and supported consistently.
The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.
Why this Role is Needed
Trase OS supports mission-critical, long-running workflows in environments with different cloud services, network controls, security requirements, and operating models. Our deployment architecture must remain portable without sacrificing reliability, security, or operational clarity.
This role will reduce one-off deployment work, remove avoidable dependencies on a single cloud provider, and establish reusable infrastructure that internal teams and customers can operate with confidence.