Ontic
Staff DevOps Engineer
$160K–$190K
Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 8–10+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Work must be performed within the United States by individuals authorized to work in the U.S. and who are U.S. citizens.
About the job
Architects and operates secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms across AWS and AWS GovCloud, leading DevSecOps, automation, reliability, cost governance, and platform engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design and govern Kubernetes platforms, deployment blueprints, and high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies.
- Drive zero-trust security, FedRAMP compliance, Terraform and GitOps automation, observability, and AI-enabled operations.
- Mentor engineers and partner with Security and Engineering on platform strategy, reliability, and cost governance.
What they ask for
- 8–10+ years of DevOps or Platform Engineering experience in enterprise or high-scale SaaS environments.
- Production architecture and operations experience in AWS and AWS GovCloud, including maintaining a FedRAMP Moderate/High environment.
- Advanced Terraform experience; deep Kubernetes platform design and large-scale cluster operations expertise.
- Experience with AWS Landing Zones, GitOps and CI/CD automation, distributed systems, and enterprise observability.
Nice to have
- GCP or OCI experience.
- Exposure to AIOps, service mesh, and secure east-west traffic management.
Pay
$160K – $190K USD base salary; bonus amount not stated
Tools
AWS, AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab
AI focus
Implement AIOps for intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, and controlled runbook-based remediation; support infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including scalable compute and secure model deployment.
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