Senior Platform DevOps Engineer (Cloud + On-Prem)

About Code Metal

About the Role

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud and hybrid infrastructure to support internal platforms and customer deployments.
• Build and manage deployment automation across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code repositories and deployment tooling using Terraform, Helm, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, rollback, and recovery systems to improve platform reliability.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers to support hybrid connectivity and environment consistency.
• Work with security teams to implement guardrails, secrets management, and deployment hardening controls.
• Support customer-hosted, air-gapped, on-prem, and government deployment requirements as needed.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes are traceable, auditable, and aligned with compliance needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience automating infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar technologies.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and maintaining deployment workflows across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of networking, secrets management, environment design, and operational reliability.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting customer-hosted, regulated, or government deployment environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps and deployment tools such as ArgoCD or similar platforms.
• Experience with observability tooling, incident response practices, and platform SRE concepts.
• Knowledge of compliance-oriented automation and auditability requirements.
• Experience working in hybrid environments that span SaaS and on-prem delivery models.
• Experience operating in multi-cloud environments, for example, Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Active U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top-Secret)

Benefits

• Pay depends on experience, but we strive to be at the upper end of the salary range
• Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision
• 401k with 5% matching
• Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation, plus sick and public holidays)
• Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement
• Relocation assistance for qualifying employees
• Wage Transparency - The salary range for this role is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as the final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, individual proficiency, skills, experience, and location.
• We are an equal opportunity employer. US Citizenship may be required for certain project assignments involving security clearance.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.