Lead DevOps

Pelico

Lead DevOps at Pelico to manage on-prem environments for enterprise customers. Drive observability and self-remediation for customer-run operations while delivering enterprise-grade software.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeMiami • Florida, Massachusetts, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing observability and self-remediation solutions for customer-run environments, with a strong focus on Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform/IaC. Proven ability to manage enterprise deliverables and lead engineering teams in regulated environments, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

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Kubernetes ManagementHelm Chart DevelopmentTerraform/IaC ProficiencyGovCloud/FedRAMP ExperienceObservability Design

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Hard Skills

KubernetesHelmTerraformDockerPrometheusGrafanaELKOpenSearchSplunkSecrets Management

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunicationTeam Building

Tools & Technologies

GKEEKSAKSFargateECS

Industry Keywords

GovCloudFedRAMPAerospaceDefenseRegulated Environments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Make it operable without us.
Design the observability and self-remediation story for air-gapped, customer-run environments — shipped diagnostics, remediation playbooks, health checks, alert auto-classification.
Go deep: auto-diagnose and auto-remediate, not just "rerun the pipeline."
Package it for any environment. Build the Helm charts, Compose stacks, and Terraform/IaC for Pelico's real deployment variants — on-prem single-VM, air-gapped Kubernetes, and private-cloud (GKE/GKS, EKS, AKS) — deployable by customer IT with clean runbooks.
Deliver on the commitment. Turn an enterprise deliverable — "ship a GKS Helm chart in a month, with three people" — into a roadmap with weekly checkpoints, MVP scope, and a date you hit.
Make it repeatable — and federal-ready. Turn bespoke deployments into repeatable tooling that gets current and committed customers live without heroics — and stand up Pelico's federal posture (GovCloud / FedRAMP, controls as code), now a co-primary track and the most probable near-term direction.
Set the boundary. 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

What you’ll need

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.
Nice to have: GovCloud and/or FedRAMP experience (strongly preferred / expected) — AWS GovCloud / Azure Government / GCP Assured Workloads, or having taken a system through FedRAMP (Moderate/High), IL, or CMMC authorization.
Aerospace / defense / government / regulated on-prem experience; air-gap or ITAR/EAR exposure.
A real 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

Comp & perks

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.