Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal

Ladders

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

10 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Paid leave

Unlimited PTO

Career growth

Professional development

401K / FSA / Equity

Mental health support

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal, to join a leader in Healthcare. This remote role focuses on building and operating secure partner environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, with emphasis on automation, observability, and troubleshooting in a regulated setting.

You will work with cross-functional teams to package releases, validate infrastructure, and improve the delivery pipeline, shaping operational excellence in mission-critical healthcare technology.

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship required.
10+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles.
Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations.
Strong experience with Helm and IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
Hands-on with AWS, Azure, and GCP including compute, networking, storage.
Strong understanding of networking, IAM, and service-to-service security.
Experience operating CI/CD or GitOps systems in production.

Responsibilities

Build and operate partner environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Package and validate services using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and CI/CD workflows using Terraform or similar tools.
Prepare and validate networking, IAM, and storage configurations for deployments.
Own technical triage and troubleshooting for deployment and production issues.
Deliver tested releases and upgrades with automated validation gates.
Operate metrics, logs, and alerts for partner environments.

Skills

DevOps

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

CI/CD

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

Azure

GCP

Networking

IAM

Security

Observability

SRE

Automation

On-prem

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

For our client, we are seeking a Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal to join the team of a leader in the Healthcare space.

This remote role will focus on building and operating secure, reliable partner environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on DevOps expertise to support production deployments, automation, observability, and troubleshooting in a highly regulated environment. You will work closely with cross-functional technical teams to package releases, validate infrastructure, and improve the delivery pipeline. This is an opportunity to shape operational excellence while supporting mission-critical healthcare technology.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $180,000 – $240,000 annually

Responsibilities

Build and operate partner environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure
Package and validate services using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
Create reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and CI/CD workflows using Terraform or similar tools
Prepare and validate networking, IAM, and storage configurations for deployments
Own technical triage and troubleshooting for deployment and production issues
Deliver tested releases and upgrades with automated validation gates
Operate metrics, logs, and alerts for partner environments

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship required
10+ years of experience in software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering
Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations
Strong experience with Helm and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Pulumi
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP, including compute, networking, and storage
Strong understanding of networking, IAM, and service-to-service security
Experience operating CI/CD or GitOps systems for production services

Benefits