Lead DevOps

About the role

This is a role for a hands-on DevOps leader who has shipped real systems into environments they didn't control — and who likes being accountable for the outcome. You impose order on ambiguity, you reason fluently about operating software you can't see, and you'd rather build self-service than fight fires.

Responsibilities

• Own the on-prem deployment frontier — tooling and packaging that get Pelico's current and committed enterprise customers live and self-operable, repeatably, not bespoke.
• Stand up Pelico's federal posture (GovCloud / FedRAMP, controls as code), now a co-primary track and the most probable near-term direction.
• Sit with customer IT and security months ahead, agree the RACI and SLAs, and draw an unambiguous line between what's theirs and what's ours.
• Lead by doing — stay hands-on (you'll choose ~20–50% infra work), set the bar, grow your engineers, and bring AI tooling into the team the right way.

Requirements

• A track record operating enterprise software in environments you didn't fully control — customer-owned / on-prem / air-gapped — or equivalent depth standing up regulated / government-cloud (GovCloud / FedRAMP) environments (deep experience in either counts; the other is a fast ramp).
• Deep, current hands-on Kubernetes + Helm + Terraform/IaC and Docker/Compose; managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS) and on-prem/bare-metal.
• Observability you can ship into places you can't reach — Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk; designing diagnostics and remediation for customer self-operation.
• A record of owning committed enterprise deliverables end-to-end with customer IT — RACI, SLAs, checkpoints, scope — and hitting the dates.
• Leading by example — you set the bar by doing; ideally you've managed ~3+ engineers, or you're an exceptional hands-on tech lead ready to build and run a small team.
• Comfort treating security & operability as infrastructure — you've operated in regulated, customer-owned, or on-prem environments and design for auditability and self-service.

Skills

• Deep hands-on Kubernetes + Helm + Terraform/IaC and Docker/Compose;
• Observability you can ship into places you can't reach — Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk;
• Designing diagnostics and remediation for customer self-operation;
• Ownership of committed enterprise deliverables end-to-end with customer IT — RACI, SLAs, checkpoints, scope;
• Leading by example — you set the bar by doing;
• Comfort treating security & operability as infrastructure;
• Experience in regulated, customer-owned, or on-prem environments;
• Self-service / platform-engineering philosophy (golden paths, self-remediation);
• AI-native ways of working — scoped tasks, heavy context, retained ownership;
• Secrets management, backup/DR, upgrade/migration tooling for disconnected sites;
• Fargate/ECS.

Benefits

• A real ownership mandate over Pelico's hardest, highest-stakes deployments, with equity in a category-defining scale-up.
• Deep, high-leverage problems with real enterprise customers — and the autonomy to solve them your way.
• An AI-native engineering culture and a small, elite team — be challenged, learn, and have fun.
• A foothold in Pelico's growing US presence, an international team of 40+ nationalities, and a real commitment to fair pay and equal opportunity.

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

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