Senior DevOps Engineer

Point One Navigation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Point One Navigation seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that keep our real‑time RTK corrections services reliable at scale. You’ll work across cloud, on‑prem, and bare‑metal environments, shaping CI/CD pipelines, security, and observability to support hundreds of thousands of devices in the field.

This is an ownership‑driven role focused on reproducible environments, fast and safe deployments, and resilient systems that perform under load

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience provisioning and operating production infrastructure.
• Ability to decompose high-level goals into actionable tasks with milestones.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform).
• Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Comfort with scripting to automate tasks; solid networking and Linux fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own Infrastructure as Code across cloud, on‑premise, and bare‑metal environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe deployments.
• Containerize services with Docker and orchestrate with Kubernetes across environments.
• Build and maintain observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana) and ensure issue resolution before customers notice.
• Design for high availability, graceful degradation, and recovery in multi‑environment setups.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and lead incident response with durable fixes.
• Develop self‑service tooling and clear processes to unblock engineers and reduce friction.

Skills

5+ years DevOps/SRE

On-call rotation

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About Point One Navigation

Point One Navigation is on a mission to bridge the digital and physical worlds through precision location. Our RTK Corrections Network and Positioning Engine deliver centimeter-level accuracy and high‑confidence positioning for vehicles, robots, drones, and devices across industries. We’re API‑first, developer‑focused, and pushing the boundaries of autonomy and automation.

Role Outcome

Senior DevOps Engineers own the infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems that keep Point One’s services running reliably at scale – from cloud and on‑premise environments to the CI/CD pipelines and observability stack that the entire engineering team depends on.

This is an ownership‑first role: you will build and operate the infrastructure that serves real‑time corrections to hundreds of thousands of devices in the field, spanning cloud and bare‑metal environments, with the availability and repeatability that mission‑critical positioning demands.

The infrastructure you own is the foundation every other team builds on. This role is responsible for keeping it automated, observable, secure, and scalable: provisioning and managing environments as code, hardening deployment pipelines, and ensuring the network stays healthy as new regions, reference stations, and customers come online.

Success In This Role Means

• Infrastructure is provisioned, configured, and managed as code – reproducible, version‑controlled, and easy to evolve.
• Deployments are automated, safe, and fast, giving engineers confidence to ship frequently.
• Services run reliably across all hosted environments, even under load and partial failure.
• Observability is comprehensive – the team catches and resolves issues before customers feel them.
• Infrastructure decisions reflect a deep understanding of real‑world constraints – reliability, scale, security, and cost.
• Engineers across the company are unblocked by self‑service tooling, clear processes, and well‑maintained environments.

Immediate Areas of Focus

Own Infrastructure as Code

• Provision and manage cloud, on‑premise, and bare‑metal infrastructure using Terraform and SaltStack configuration management.
• Build reproducible, version‑controlled environments that are easy to stand up, evolve, and tear down.
• Break down high‑level goals into concrete tasks, schedules, and milestones, and hold yourself accountable for delivering against them.
• Ensure infrastructure is well‑structured, documented, and built to last as the product and customer base grow.

Automate Deployment and Delivery

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) that make shipping fast, safe, and repeatable.
• Containerize services with Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes across environments.
• Drive improvements in build, test, and release workflows so engineers can deliver with confidence.
• Standardize deployment patterns and reduce toil through tooling and automation.

Operate Reliable Systems

• Own observability – metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana) – so issues are caught and resolved before customers feel them.
• Design for high availability, graceful degradation, and recovery across cloud and on‑premise environments.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and reliability risks early, particularly as traffic and scale grow.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and lead incident response, drive root‑cause analysis, and follow through on durable fixes.

Support the Engineering Team

• Build self‑service tooling and clear processes that unblock engineers and reduce friction.
• Collaborate with backend, embedded, firmware, and customer‑facing teams to deliver reliable end‑to‑end systems.
• Surface infrastructure risks and tradeoffs early so architecture and delivery decisions reflect real‑world constraints.
• Follow security and access‑management best practices across infrastructure, secrets, and deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven professional experience (5+ years) in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Proven ability to provision and operate production infrastructure – from setup through deployment and on‑call ownership.
• Proven ability to decompose high‑level goals into actionable tasks, realistic schedules, and clear milestones – with a track record of delivering on commitments.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud.
• Strong experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform).
• Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Comfortable scripting and automating in any general‑purpose language.
• Solid understanding of networking, Linux systems, and security fundamentals.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with programming languages (Go, Java, Python, Node).
• Experience operating hybrid cloud and on‑premise / bare‑metal fleets at scale.
• Background in highly available or mission‑critical systems.
• Experience supporting real‑time or low‑latency services.
• Experience with distributed and clustered data stores (e.g., ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2).