Hybrid Staff DevOps Engineer

at webAI™

• Job title: Staff DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Python, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Staff DevOps Engineer designing and architecting secure, scalable infrastructure for AI workloads at webAI. Leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers on cloud architecture and reliability best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect secure, scalable cloud and edge infrastructure for deploying AI workloads across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments
• Build and maintain production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi, managing 100+ resources with GitOps workflows and automated validation
• Design and operate production Kubernetes clusters optimized for AI/ML workloads with GPU support, implementing container security, multi-tenancy, and resource optimization
• Implement secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls (SAST, DAST, vulnerability scanning, secrets management) and automated deployment workflows for containerized AI models
• Lead MLOps infrastructure initiatives including model deployment pipelines, versioning, feature stores, experiment tracking, and monitoring for model performance and drift
• Design comprehensive observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog with distributed tracing, APM, and real-time alerting aligned to SLIs/SLOs
• Implement security best practices including least-privilege access, encryption at rest/in transit, network segmentation, and automated compliance validation
• Lead incident response and reliability initiatives, participate in on-call rotation, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvement for system reliability
• Architect disaster recovery and business continuity strategies with automated backup, failover, and recovery processes
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and templates to accelerate environment provisioning and standardize deployment patterns across teams
• Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on cloud architecture, DevOps best practices, and platform reliability through design reviews and technical guidance
• Drive technical documentation and knowledge sharing including runbooks, architecture decision records (ADRs), and infrastructure standards

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering with proven track record of architecting production systems
• Expert-level proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD preferred), and cloud-native technologies in production environments
• 5+ years implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi, managing large-scale (50+) cloud resources
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including compute, networking, storage, and managed services
• Proven experience building and scaling CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Strong programming skills in Python (preferred for automation), Bash, or Go for infrastructure tooling and automation
• Production experience with observability and monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar
• Experience with MLOps workflows: model deployment automation, versioning, and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated experience with GitOps methodologies and declarative infrastructure management
• Strong understanding of security best practices: encryption, secrets management, identity and access management (IAM), network security
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and cross-functional collaboration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package.
• 401k Match (US-based only)
• $200/mos Health and Wellness Stipend
• $400/year Continuing Education Credit
• $500/year Function Health subscription (US-based only)
• Free parking, for in-office employees
• Unlimited Approved PTO
• Parental Leave for Eligible Employees
• Supplemental Life Insurance