Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal/National Security

redcellpartners; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Professional development

Equity opportunity

Job summary

redcellpartners seeks a seasoned DevOps/Platform Engineer to build and operate secure software delivery foundations for federal environments. You will own end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines, deployment promotion, and logs access across unclassified to classified settings, collaborating across security, compliance, and customer teams.

The role requires hands‑on platform work, strong scripting skills (Python/Bash/Go), and experience with restricted environments.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher; Top Secret preferred.
• Experience in DevOps, platform or infra engineering, SRE, or release engineering.
• Experience building CI/CD and deployment systems, incl. restricted or air-gapped environments.
• Strong understanding of artifact promotion, environment isolation, access control, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, containers/orchestration, automation, and scripting (Python/Bash/Go).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and secure promotion paths across security environments.
• Build repeatable deployment, release, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting processes.
• Deploy and operate software in government or customer-controlled environments with limited log access.
• Partner with software and platform teams to isolate problems and deliver corrected artifacts safely.
• Establish infrastructure as code, config/secrets management, and artifact handling practices.
• Support authorization-related work, document procedures, and evaluate tools for security and reliability.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

SRE

Release engineering

CI/CD design

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Tools

CI/CD system

Container orchestration

Infrastructure automation

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

Role overview

Create the secure software-delivery and deployment foundation for federal customer environments, starting with a largely blank slate. You’ll own practical systems for building, promoting, deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting software across unclassified, controlled, and classified settings. The role combines hands‑on platform work with coordination across engineering, security, compliance, and customer teams, including deployments where access to logs or systems is restricted.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and secure software-promotion paths across different security environments.
• Build repeatable deployment, release, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting processes.
• Deploy and operate software in government or customer-controlled environments, including diagnosing issues with limited access to logs or data.
• Partner with software and platform teams to isolate problems and deliver corrected artifacts safely.
• Establish practices for infrastructure as code, configuration and secrets management, and artifact handling.
• Support authorization-related technical work, document operating procedures, and evaluate tools for security, reliability, and portability.

Requirements

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher; an active Top Secret clearance is preferred.
• Professional experience in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering, SRE, release engineering, or a related field.
• Experience building or substantially redesigning CI/CD and deployment systems, including deployments to restricted, regulated, disconnected, or air-gapped environments.
• Strong understanding of artifact promotion, environment isolation, access control, and operational troubleshooting.
• Experience with a CI/CD system, container and orchestration technologies, infrastructure automation, and scripting in Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Sound judgment when requirements are incomplete, clear communication across technical and customer groups, and interest in building systems from the ground up.

Nice to have

Experience with IL4, IL5, IL6, classified, or cross-domain deployments; authorization or continuous authorization work; and federal frameworks such as NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, or STIGs.

Benefits and work setup

This is a high-ownership role shaping an early-stage federal deployment platform. The listed salary range is $170,000–$240,000, plus bonus and equity. Benefits may vary and include employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, 14 weeks of paid parental leave, manager-approved unlimited paid time off, professional development, and optional retirement and flexible-spending programs.