Sr. Staff DevOps Engineer with Clearance

Job description

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world. To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

 Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). Please review the job details below. Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next.  Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.    Vantor’s Platform DevOps team is growing and we’re looking for a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer with Site Reliability Engineering experience to support the build, deployment, reliability, and operations of the Vantor Hub software suite. This team is part of Vantor’s Platform Infrastructure organization, working on a unified platform powering applications used by Vantor’s customers. We’re looking for a candidate that is inspired by working with a talented group of world-class engineers, scaling our development, deployment, and operations efforts.     This position is hybrid with three days a week on-site with your colleagues in Westminster, CO.    The Platform DevOps team designs, develops, secures, and operates a wide range of custom and third-party software solutions deployed in AWS. The team oversees dozens of AWS accounts between commercial and government environments, and guides DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and reliability engineering best practices. We collaborate with hundreds of Vantor engineers to quickly and securely build, test, and release software changes into many commercial and government AWS environments. This software and adjacent services are critical to the overall velocity of the organization and allows our teams to introduce business value rapidly without sacrificing quality or security.    As a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer for Site Reliability, you will play a key role in improving the reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity of Vantor Hub and its supporting infrastructure. You will work hands-on with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD systems, monitoring platforms, and incident response processes while also influencing engineering standards and reliability practices across teams.    This role is intended for an experienced engineer who can operate independently, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor others, and help establish best practices for production readiness, service reliability, automation, and cloud operations.  Responsibilities:  Lead reliability engineering efforts for the Vantor Hub platform and related infrastructure services.  Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines for software and infrastructure delivery.  Build, operate, and improve cloud infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS-native services.  Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, performance, reliability, and production issues.  Improve service availability, scalability, maintainability, reliability, security, and overall operational readiness.  Design and operate highly available, resilient, observable, and secure infrastructure across commercial and government AWS environments.  Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment safety, rollback capabilities, observability, production readiness, and operational support.  Participate in a team on-call rotation, currently approximately one week every twelve weeks, supporting production reliability and incident response.  Leverage AI development tools as force multipliers for software design, implementation, testing, and documentation while maintaining reliability, security, and engineering quality.  Contribute to shared engineering standards for responsible AI-assisted development, including validation practices, documentation expectations, and review patterns.  Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate infrastructure automation, documentation, runbook development, test scaffolding, incident analysis, and repeatable operational workflows; validate outputs through peer review, testing, and security practices.    Minimum requirements for this position:    Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.  8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud operations, with demonstrated ownership of production systems.  Demonstrated experience owning, operating, and improving production systems in cloud-based environments.  Strong experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, incident response, post-incident reviews, reliability metrics, and reliability-focused automation.  Strong proficiency with Amazon Web Services, including experience operating production workloads in multi-account AWS environments.  Strong proficiency with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.  Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.  Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.  Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols.  The ability to communicate and collaborate with team members and other colleagues.  Active U.S. Government security clearance  Nice to Have:  Experience with high-availability systems, database replication, backup and restore, disaster recovery, and business-continuity planning.  Experience with zero-downtime or low-downtime deployment strategies, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, rolling deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.  Experience with observability and incident management platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, PagerDuty, or similar tools.  Experience with secure cloud operations, least-privilege IAM, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit-ready infrastructure.  Experience supporting government, regulated, or compliance-driven environments.  Practical experience using AI-assisted development or automation tools to improve engineering workflows, with a clear understanding of validation, review, privacy, and security considerations.  Pay Transparency: To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions. Candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the role should not expect to receive compensation at the top of the range. The listed range reflects the expected pay for this position, and final offers will be determined based on each candidate’s experience, expertise, and alignment with the role. ● The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $128,000.00 - $170,000.00 - $187,000.00 annually. For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. The date of posting can be found on Vantor's Career page at the top of each job posting. To apply, submit your application via Vantor's Career page. EEO Policy: Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We believe in fostering an environment where all team members feel respected, valued, and encouraged to share their ideas. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.