Pelico
Lead DevOps Engineer
US: Miami, Austin, or Boston · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
About the job
Leads a small DevOps team and builds repeatable deployment, observability, and self-remediation capabilities for Pelico in customer-owned, on-premises, air-gapped, and regulated cloud environments.
What you'll do
- Package and deploy Pelico across single-VM, Kubernetes, air-gapped, and private-cloud environments using Helm, Compose, and Terraform/IaC.
- Design diagnostics, observability, and remediation so customer IT teams can operate and recover deployments independently.
- Lead delivery of enterprise deployments and establish Pelico’s GovCloud/FedRAMP posture, including controls as code.
What they ask for
- Experience operating enterprise software in customer-owned/on-premises/air-gapped environments, or equivalent depth with regulated or government-cloud environments.
- Current hands-on Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform/IaC, and Docker/Compose experience.
- Experience owning enterprise deliverables end-to-end with customer IT, including scope, checkpoints, and delivery dates.
- Hands-on technical leadership; ideally managed approximately 3+ engineers or is ready to lead a small team.
Nice to have
- GovCloud or FedRAMP experience, including AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, GCP Assured Workloads, or relevant authorization experience.
- Aerospace, defense, government, regulated on-premises, air-gap, or ITAR/EAR experience.
Tools
Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform/IaC, Docker/Compose, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, GKE/EKS/AKS
AI focus
Bring AI tooling into the DevOps team; AI-native ways of working are listed as a nice-to-have.
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