Principal Platform DevOps Engineer: GovCloud & AI Pipelines

Ursa Major; Berthoud (CO); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

401k with Company Match

Equity Grants

Job summary

Ursa Major is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer in Colorado to own platform engineering, IaC, and deployment strategies across cloud, on‑premise, and manufacturing environments. You will shape architecture, drive GitOps practices, and mentor teams to deliver mission‑critical systems faster and more reliably.

This role requires 8+ years of DevOps leadership, hands-on GovCloud mastery, Terraform, Kubernetes, and a proven ability to align security, reliability, and performance with business goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure/Platform Engineering experience.
• Hands-on mastery of Azure GovCloud and/or AWS GovCloud environments, with deep expertise in VPC networking, IAM, and cloud-native security controls.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and continuous delivery via GitOps patterns (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or Flux).
• Direct experience architecting high-availability systems, automated DR solutions, and telemetry suites (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Practical experience configuring automated container/code and centralized secrets management (AWS/Azure Key Vaults, HashiCorp Vault).
• Experience automating, deploying, or supporting hosted AI model integrations within production CI/CD pipelines.
• A proactive problem solver who builds trust across teams, rejects black‑and‑white thinking, and focuses on enabling business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Developer Experience
• Lead the research, design, and continuous improvement of platform infrastructure, software deployment, and Developer Experience (DX) across the enterprise.
• Decompose complex infrastructure problems into maintainable systems; author clear technical design documents and lead cross-functional teams through execution.
• Act as a strategic connector between Software Engineering, IT, and Networking to unify tooling, share infrastructure patterns, and eliminate operational silos.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps & High Availability (HA)
• Advance our declarative IaC and GitOps practices (using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD/Flux) to deliver fully automated, drift‑free
• application lifecycles across Azure GovCloud and AWS GovCloud.
• Extend containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) beyond cloud environments into on‑premise test benches, shop‑floor PCs, and edge manufacturing hardware in alignment with our CMMC Level 2 hybrid strategy.
• Own Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) architecture—maintaining automated backup and failover capabilities.
• DevSecOps & AI Pipeline Integration
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Zero‑Trust teams to integrate automated vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and policy‑as‑code guardrails directly into CI/CD workflows without introducing developer friction.
• Architect and support automated pipelines for hosted and private AI models, enabling software and engineering teams to leverage high‑throughput AI capabilities safely within our secure compliance boundary.
• Maintain continuous telemetry, metrics, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana) to give engineers real‑time visibility into application performance and pipeline health.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud architecture

SRE/DevOps

Automation

Security-minded

Tools

Azure GovCloud

AWS GovCloud

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

GitHub Actions

Packer

Ansible

HashiCorp Vault

Key Vaults

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Ursa Major is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer in Colorado to own platform engineering, IaC, and deployment strategies across cloud, on‑premise, and manufacturing environments. You will shape architecture, drive GitOps practices, and mentor teams to deliver mission‑critical systems faster and more reliably.

This role requires 8+ years of DevOps leadership, hands-on GovCloud mastery, Terraform, Kubernetes, and a proven ability to align security, reliability, and performance with business goals.