Senior DevOps Platform Engineer - Remote AI Life Sciences

Salt AI; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Fully remote role in U.S. time zones

Job summary

Salt AI is building the enterprise AI platform for life sciences and seeks a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own the deployment backbone across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem environments. You will design, implement, and operate multi-cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.

You will champion CI/CD pipelines, ensure parity across GCP/AWS/Azure, enforce infrastructure standards, and drive observability, security, DR, and runbooks while partnering with developers to boost performance

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production cloud infrastructure (GCP and/or AWS), ideally in multi-cloud environments.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and pipeline design (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• 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.
• Experience implementing and operating observability stacks (metrics, logs, traces).
• Solid understanding of web application deployment, scaling, and reliability fundamentals.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar for automation.
• Experience integrating automated tests into deployment workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, especially in distributed systems.
• Clear, concise communication and a collaborative working style.

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), ensuring parity and predictable behavior.
• 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

CI/CD pipelines

Multi-cloud

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Docker

Observability

Python/Bash scripting

Automation testing

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Salt AI is building the enterprise AI platform for life sciences and seeks a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own the deployment backbone across SaaS, VPC, and on-prem environments. You will design, implement, and operate multi-cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical workloads.

You will champion CI/CD pipelines, ensure parity across GCP/AWS/Azure, enforce infrastructure standards, and drive observability, security, DR, and runbooks while partnering with developers to boost performance