Head of DevOps (Cleared)
ConductorAI
Software Engineering
Washington Metropolitan Area, USA · Oregon, USA · Washington, DC, USA · Portland, OR, USA
USD 180k-240k / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 7, 2025
Head of DevOps (Cleared)
Washington DC Area • Greater Portland (Maine) Area
Engineering
Remote • Hybrid
Full-time
About ConductorAI
At ConductorAI, our mission is to help the government move faster. Our core product leverages AI to enable the secure and expedient classification and dissemination of information in the Department of Defense. We are currently on multiple DoD contracts, and have raised over $15M in funding from Lux, Abstract, Haystack, Humba, Sunflower, Altman Capital, and others. As an early-stage tech startup, we pride ourselves on delivering state of the art AI applications that address the unique challenges faced by the Department of Defense (DoD) and related agencies.
Position Overview
As our Head of DevOps, you'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy. As our first dedicated DevOps hire, you'll have an opportunity to massively shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments, and to confront interesting infrastructure problems around deploying LLMs and other large models efficiently and robustly. We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness and ability to take ownership of hard problems. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the DevOps role at ConductorAI, including roles and responsibilities, and own all DevOps related functionality end-to-end at the company, including multi-platform deployment (cloud environments, on-prem environments, etc.)
- Help design the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application
- Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed
- Docker: Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs.
- Kubernetes: Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem.
- CI/CD: Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and it's dependencies as painless and robust as possible.
- System Accreditation: Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP.
- Strategy and Culture: As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our budding culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve.
Qualifications
- US DoD security clearance - minimum Secret
- 6+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer in high-stakes customer or company environment
- On-site experience with senior customer stakeholders to outline infrastructure requirements and deploy software
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proactive mindset, with a knack for identifying opportunities and taking initiative
- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
- Strong experence with system design and strategy, including multi-cloud software deployment
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles/best practices, especially FedRAMP and NIST 800-53
- Demonstrated proficiency in python and typescript
- Experience with LLMs and especially open source LLMs is a plus
- Experience mentoring or collaborating other software engineers is a plus
What We Offer
- The ability to have real impact, and to shape the future of an early stage startup that has closed over $4M of contracts and $15M of funding
- The chance to use state-of-the-art tech to solve novel problems with real mission impact
- The opportunity to define your role through time as we grow
- A flexible, remote work environment, with a focus on the East Coast
- Competitive salary and equity upside
- Comprehensive health care, unlimited PTO, 401k, and parental leave
The base salary range for this role is between $180K-$240k with the opportunity for significant equity. However, this is just an estimate - starting pay will be based on a number of factors, including qualifications & experience.
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Req ID: R12