Staff DevOps Engineer, Federal/National Security

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm developing technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. The company is seeking a hands-on Staff DevOps Engineer to build secure CI/CD, software promotion, infrastructure automation, and operational processes for software deployed across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments. The role will also support federal authorization activities, diagnose issues in restricted customer environments, and serve as a technical owner for scalable deployment systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build Red Cell Federal’s CI/CD and software promotion pipelines from the ground up
• Establish secure processes for promoting software across unclassified, controlled, and classified environments
• Support ATO-related technical activities for software agents and customer deployments
• Build repeatable deployment, release, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities
• Deploy and operate software in government and customer-controlled environments
• Diagnose issues in environments where logs, data, or direct access cannot be shared broadly
• Partner with software and platform engineering teams to isolate problems and deliver corrected artifacts
• Define infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, secrets management, and artifact-handling practices
• Help establish operational and compliance practices appropriate for federal work
• Evaluate tools and architecture based on security, reliability, portability, and mission requirements
• Document systems and processes so deployments can scale across customers and environments
• Serve as a hands-on technical owner while the federal engineering organization grows

Requirements:

• Active U.S. government Secret clearance or higher
• Professional experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, release engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Experience building or substantially redesigning CI/CD and deployment systems
• Experience deploying software into government, defense, regulated, disconnected, air-gapped, or otherwise restricted environments
• Strong understanding of software delivery, artifact promotion, environment isolation, access controls, and operational troubleshooting
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or comparable tooling
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, or related orchestration and packaging technologies
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration automation
• Ability to script and automate in languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Ability to make sound technical decisions with incomplete requirements
• Strong communication skills across software engineering, security, compliance, and customer stakeholders
• A builder mentality and genuine interest in creating systems from zero
• An active Top Secret clearance is preferred
• Experience with IL4, IL5, IL6, classified, or cross-domain deployment workflows
• Experience contributing to an ATO or continuous authorization process
• Familiarity with NIST, RMF, FedRAMP, CMMC, STIGs, or related federal requirements