Remote Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - AI Infra & Cloud

Salt AI; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health coverage

Remote work

Job summary

Salt AI is building the intelligence layer for the enterprise, focusing on life sciences. As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will own the deployment backbone for Salt’s multi-environment AI platform across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem, ensuring reliability, speed, and security.

You’ll design infrastructure-as-code, build high‑velocity CI/CD pipelines, and partner with developers to improve performance and operability in cloud-native and multi-tenant contexts. Remote-first, US time zones.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating production cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), ideally in multi‑cloud environments.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and pipeline design (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Proficiency with Docker and core containerization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Drive velocity by building and maintaining high-speed, reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Own multi‑cloud deployment consistency across SaaS, VPC, and on‑prem environments (GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Define and enforce infrastructure and deployment standards to prevent environment drift.
• Implement and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure platform health, performance, and SLOs.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of infrastructure using infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Design and maintain application security, backup, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Partner closely with developers to improve application performance, reliability, and operability.
• Participate in incident response, including on‑call rotations, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Maintain clear, discoverable documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and runbooks.
• Support QA by enabling automated testing in pipelines and stable test environments.
• Champion and spread best practices for code quality, security, and deployment standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Automation

Cloud platforms

Networking basics

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Salt AI is building the intelligence layer for the enterprise, focusing on life sciences. As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you will own the deployment backbone for Salt’s multi-environment AI platform across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem, ensuring reliability, speed, and security.

You’ll design infrastructure-as-code, build high‑velocity CI/CD pipelines, and partner with developers to improve performance and operability in cloud-native and multi-tenant contexts. Remote-first, US time zones.