DevOps Engineer

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Rhombus Power, Inc. delivers AI-powered predictive intelligence in real time for defense and national security organizations worldwide. Our mission-built products— Ambient AI and Guardian— are transforming strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making. By empowering the shift from reactive analysis to proactive, predictive intelligence and decision support, Rhombus Power is providing foresight and freedom of action when it matters most. Come join our cross-disciplinary and world-class team that is delivering game-changing solutions to transform global security. Learn more about Rhombus Power, Inc. and watch a demonstration of Guardian, our AI Platform here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PxY6su1Q-Q https://www.youtube.com/@rhombuspower8558/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iby5WVNfQiI See the following articles to learn more about what we do: https://www.rhombuspower.com/news-and-media Location: Palo Alto, CA (HQ) Travel: This position involves both domestic (CONUS) and international (OCONUS) travel at roughly 15% We are building technology for national security and defense missions at the highest levels of government and decision-making. Our software helps bring together complex data, systems, and workflows to support critical decisions across the national-security enterprise. As our platform scales, our technology must operate reliably across cloud, on-premises, and distributed environments. We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to help make that possible. This is an opportunity for an ambitious engineer with strong technical foundations who wants to take meaningful ownership, solve challenging problems, and grow quickly in a high-impact environment. You will own the systems that take our software from a developer’s laptop all the way into production—and increasingly into distributed customer and edge environments. You will work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, observability, automation, security, and edge deployment to make our software easier to build, deploy, operate, and scale. This is an end-to-end ownership role. You won't be limited to a narrow infrastructure function or handed fully defined requirements. You will help identify problems, determine the right approach, build the solution, deploy it, operate it, and continuously improve it. When something breaks, you will be expected to understand the problem, work across layers of the stack, and drive it through to resolution. We are looking for someone who already has strong technical fundamentals, is naturally curious, learns quickly, and wants to take on increasingly difficult problems. You should be excited by the opportunity to grow your scope rather than waiting for someone else to define it. Because we operate in defense environments, our deployments can be very different from a typical SaaS environment. You may work with cloud infrastructure one day and help deploy software into a disconnected, bandwidth-constrained, resource-constrained, or otherwise challenging environment the next. You will work directly with software engineers, technical leadership, customers, and field teams to make those deployments successful. What You'll Own Own the end-to-end deployment lifecycle—from source control, builds, and testing through production and edge deployment, monitoring, upgrades, recovery, and ongoing operations. Build and improve CI/CD systems that allow engineering teams to build, test, package, and release software quickly and reliably. Design and automate deployments across cloud, on-premises, and distributed edge environments, including environments with limited connectivity, constrained resources, or other operational challenges. Build and maintain infrastructure as code, creating repeatable, version-controlled environments that can be deployed consistently across cloud and edge locations. Deploy and operate containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and related technologies, including configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management. Create the tooling engineers need to move faster. Identify repetitive or fragile processes and turn them into reliable automation. Build operational capabilities for configuration management, application lifecycle management, observability, logging, health monitoring, and fleet management across distributed environments. Own reliable release and recovery mechanisms, including deployment validation, rollbacks, upgrades, failure recovery, and disaster recovery. Partner closely with software engineers to improve application architecture, deployment patterns, developer workflows, testability, and operational reliability. Troubleshoot problems across the full stack. Investigate issues spanning applications, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, infrastructure, and deployment systems—and drive them to resolution. Help build secure-by-default infrastructure and delivery practices, including appropriate access controls, vulnerability management, secrets management, and secure software delivery, while maintaining engineering velocity. Support production systems and deployments, including participation in an on-call rotation for critical systems as the team and customer footprint grows. Help shape the deployment architecture as we scale, evolving our platform from early-stage product development toward operating software reliably across a growing distributed customer and edge footprint. Get close to the real-world mission. Travel 15–20% CONUS and OCONUS to support deployments, field operations, customer environments, and system integration activities. What We're Looking For 3+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Strong technical foundations in Linux, networking, systems, and software development workflows. Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines, preferably including taking them from