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title: 'Senior DevOps Specialist at Hatch IT'
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# Senior DevOps Specialist at Hatch IT

- **Company:** Hatch IT
- **Location:** Somerville, MA / Washington, DC
- **Compensation:** $165k–$195k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hatchit/2925d6c8-9ce7-46b9-810b-d8a7618ed452

## Job description

hatch I.T. is partnering with Via to find a Senior DevOps Specialist. See details below:

About the Role:

As a Senior DevOps Specialist, you will join VIA’s DevOps team to help drive the deployment, security, and reliability of their Web3 data and identity protection solutions. You won’t wait to be handed a problem. You’ll identify what matters, bring a clear point of view on how to address it, and lead work through to completion in close partnership with the rest of the DevOps team. You will take ownership of key components of VIA’s infrastructure while shaping the broader technical direction alongside your teammates, leveraging AI-driven automation and infrastructure-as-code to replace manual processes and ensure their platform meets rigorous security requirements.

About the Company:

At VIA, their mission is to make communities cleaner, safer, and more equitable. VIA believes that by working across organizational boundaries, they can achieve greater collective good than they can individually. VIA overcomes digital barriers to collective action by providing the world’s most secure and simple data and identity protection solutions.

VIA is trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 100 companies around the globe to solve their toughest data and identity protection challenges. Using their Web3, quantum-resistant, passwordless technologies (19 issued patents), VIA protects data against theft, manipulation, and misuse.

Responsibilities:

- Help shape and operate infrastructure and deployment systems
- Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling that engineering teams rely on every day
- Drive reliability and observability
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that keep systems healthy and surface issues before customers feel them
- Champion security and compliance
- Partner with security and compliance teammates to ensure infrastructure aligns with VIA's security obligations (e.g., CJIS, CMMC, and SOC 2), embedding security controls into automated pipelines rather than bolting them on
- Partner across the engineering organization
- Work closely with engineering leadership, Client Delivery Leads, and product teams to ensure infrastructure work is properly prioritized and accounted for during project planning and resource allocation
- Partner with the team to identify and implement AI tools and agents
- Identify and implement AI tools and agents to eliminate manual bottlenecks across the DevOps lifecycle, including automated remediation, log anomaly detection, infrastructure-as-code generation and review, and compliance evidence collection

Qualifications:

What you will bring to this role:

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related degree
- 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role, with demonstrated success in a high-growth technical environment
- Deep technical understanding of IT infrastructure integration, Unix/Linux, (e.g., DNS, storage systems, firewalls, etc.), TCP/UDP/IP behavior, and application data flows between systems - a must have
- High proficiency in application deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, IaC e.g. Terraform, Docker), configuration and monitoring (e.g., System logs, Kibana, Grafana, etc.)
- In-depth experience with AWS; Azure, or GCP cloud service providers a bonus
- Experience managing network infrastructure, protocols, troubleshooting, and security (e.g., firewalls, security groups, OS/container hardening, PEN testing)
- Experience adhering to the standards of compliance frameworks (e.g. CJIS, CMMC, SOC2)
- Proficiency in Python and shell script languages
- Proven ability to independently manage priorities and plan effectively across multiple upcoming development cycles (sprints), anticipating future dependencies and resource needs
- Proven track record building strong stakeholder relationships, with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to effectively communicate and influence
- Experience or interest in the following skills is also a plus:
- Deployment of blockchain nodes (e.g., experience with configuration of Ethereum miners)
- Application orchestration
- Service mesh technology (e.g., Istio)
- Managing IoT devices as part of an Operational Technology system

## About Hatch IT

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hatch I.T. is a specialized tech recruiting partner that connects mission-driven startups with engineering, data, and product talent through flexible hiring models.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Tysons, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Tim Winkler (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Staffing and Recruiting, with a focus on technology roles for startups in defense, healthcare, AI, cybersecurity, and space.
- Target customers: B2B – early-stage and high-growth startups, especially those with a national security, healthcare, or dual-use mission.
- Mission or purpose statement: "Where talent meets mission" – connecting companies with skilled talent who are deeply aligned with the company’s mission and values.

## Products & Services
- **RPO / Embedded Recruiting**: Dedicated recruiters embedded in the client’s culture, managing full-cycle hiring from sourcing to onboarding.
- **Contingency Hiring**: Pay-only-when-you-hire model for hard-to-fill roles.
- **Contract-to-Hire**: Evaluate talent on the job before committing to a full-time hire.
- **Executive Search**: Finding leadership for mission-driven startups.
- **Scale**: Technical consulting and recruiting services for high-growth startups.
- **Stride**: Technical strategy and consulting for early-stage startups.
- **hatchpad**: An online community platform for startup technologists to network, learn, and advance their careers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (no disclosed funding rounds).
- **Key Metric**: 20 employees (down 12% YoY); 94% 1-year retention rate; 28 days average time to hire.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors identified. Partners include startups across defense, healthcare, and cyber sectors.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for 5+ roles (Senior Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, etc.) with a 25% monthly increase in job postings; expanding remote/hybrid options; offices in the US and distributed team across 6 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- Specialized focus on mission-driven startups (defense, national security, healthcare, AI) – a niche that traditional staffing firms often overlook.
- Flexible pricing and engagement models (contingency, contract-to-hire, RPO) tailored to startup budgets.
- High retention rates (94%) and fast hiring cycles (28 days) demonstrate effective matching.
- Proprietary community (hatchpad) and content (The Hatch Pad newsletter) to attract and engage technologists.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen partnerships within defense, healthcare, AI, and cybersecurity verticals.
- Scale the hatchpad community to become a go-to resource for startup technologists.
- Maintain a distributed remote/hybrid workforce to access talent globally while supporting clients primarily in the Washington D.C. metro area.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasis on mission alignment, relational (not transactional) approach, and collaborative small-team environment.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid and remote roles available depending on position; some on-site roles in Washington, DC, Arlington, VA, Reston, VA, and Somerville, MA.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: Not extensively documented, but employee reviews on LinkedIn rate Work-Life, Compensation, and Culture all at 5.0/5.0 (3 reviews). The company invests in professional community through hatchpad.
- **Team**: Small (20–25 employees), with a high proportion of HR and recruiting specialists. Distributed across the US, South Africa, Canada, Romania, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.

## Sources
1. [hatchit.io](https://www.hatchit.io/)
2. [LinkedIn - hatch I.T.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-it)
3. [Built In - hatch I.T.](https://builtin.com/company/hatch-it)
4. [Lever careers page - Hatch IT](https://jobs.lever.co/hatchit)
5. [The Org - hatch IT](https://theorg.com/org/hatch-it)

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