Federal DevOps Engineer - CI/CD for Classified Environments

Red Cell Partners, LLC.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for you and family

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

Equity incentives

Mental health benefits

On-call allowances

Job summary

Red Cell Partners is building the federal deployment platform from the ground up, delivering secure CI/CD, software promotion, and infrastructure automation for unclassified to classified environments.

You will own deployment pipelines, participate in ATO activities, and collaborate with software teams to ensure reliable operations in restricted environments. This role requires hands-on engineering leadership and a builder mentality.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher. An active Top Secret clearance is preferred.
• Professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, release engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Experience building or substantially redesigning CI/CD and deployment systems.
• Experience deploying software into government, defense, regulated, disconnected, air-gapped, or restricted environments.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, artifact promotion, environment isolation, access controls, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or comparable tooling.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, or related orchestration and packaging technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration automation.
• Ability to script and automate in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong communication skills across software engineering, security, compliance, and customer stakeholders.
• Builder mentality and genuine interest in creating systems from zero.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Red Cell Federal’s CI/CD and software promotion pipelines from the ground up.
• Establish secure processes for promoting software across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments.
• Support ATO-related technical activities for software agents and customer deployments.
• Build repeatable deployment, release, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities.
• Deploy and operate software in government and customer‑controlled environments.
• Diagnose issues in environments where logs, data, or direct access cannot be shared broadly.
• Partner with software and platform engineering teams to isolate problems and deliver corrected artifacts.
• Define infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, secrets management, and artifact‑handling practices.
• Help establish operational and compliance practices appropriate for federal work.
• Evaluate tools and architecture based on security, reliability, portability, and mission requirements.
• Document systems and processes so deployments can scale across customers and environments.
• Serve as a hands‑on technical owner while the federal engineering organization grows.

Skills

Automation

SRE mindset

Communication

Decision making

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Red Cell Partners is building the federal deployment platform from the ground up, delivering secure CI/CD, software promotion, and infrastructure automation for unclassified to classified environments.

You will own deployment pipelines, participate in ATO activities, and collaborate with software teams to ensure reliable operations in restricted environments. This role requires hands-on engineering leadership and a builder mentality.