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# Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer, Platform Infrastructure at Red Cell Partners

- **Company:** Red Cell Partners
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/redcellpartners/jobs/5246410007

## Job description

## About Us

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

## About Trase

Co-founded in 2023 by [Joe Laws](https://www.redcellpartners.com/member/joe-laws/) and [Grant Verstandig](https://www.redcellpartners.com/member/grant-verstandig/), Trase Systems is AI, Uncomplicated. Trase empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of AI without the associated complexity and risks. We are an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise. Our platform specializes in bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption, unlocking AI's full potential while driving efficiency and significant cost savings. Trase is at the forefront of AI Agent innovation, topping the Hugging Face GAIA Leaderboard for Generalized AI Assistants, ahead of industry giants such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. We are leveraging our cutting-edge technologies to develop mission-critical agentic applications in complex industries such as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, and National Security.

## About the Role

As a Senior or Staff DevOps Engineer on Platform Infrastructure, you will design and operate the infrastructure that supports Trase OS across Trase-hosted and customer-controlled environments. You will build secure, repeatable deployment patterns spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises infrastructure.

This is a hands-on engineering role with broad ownership. You will work across application packaging, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (IaC), networking, security, observability, release engineering, and production reliability. You will also partner directly with engineering and customer-facing teams to turn deployment requirements into systems that can be installed, upgraded, operated, and supported consistently.

The level will reflect your experience and demonstrated scope. Staff-level candidates will be expected to lead architecture across teams, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

## Why this Role is Needed

Trase OS supports mission-critical, long-running workflows in environments with different cloud services, network controls, security requirements, and operating models. Our deployment architecture must remain portable without sacrificing reliability, security, or operational clarity.

This role will reduce one-off deployment work, remove avoidable dependencies on a single cloud provider, and establish reusable infrastructure that internal teams and customers can operate with confidence.

## What You'll Do

- Architect, build, and operate secure infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, on-premises, and customer-controlled environments.
- Containerize and package Trase OS application services using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, or equivalent tools.
- Create reusable infrastructure-as-code (IaC) modules and deployment workflows using Terraform, Pulumi, or comparable tooling.
- Design deployment patterns that account for customer-specific requirements such as restricted networks, limited or no egress, approved registries, data residency, and cloud account ownership.
- Identify, replace, or abstract hard dependencies on managed cloud services when they prevent portability across deployment environments.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, Kubernetes clusters, cloud services, networks, and infrastructure rather than treating platform work as CI/CD scripting alone.
- Build and maintain CI/CD and GitOps workflows, release orchestration, environment promotion, upgrade paths, rollback procedures, and version compatibility controls.
- Build and operate observability for Trase OS across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs so teams can diagnose failures and support customer deployments.

Technical Leadership

- Lead infrastructure and reliability decisions that affect multiple product and customer teams.
- Set practical standards for production readiness, cloud portability, security, observability, and operational support.
- Make clear tradeoffs between speed, maintainability, cost, security, and customer requirements, and drive decisions through implementation.
- Build reusable platform capabilities that replace one-off deployment solutions.
- Mentor engineers and raise the team's ability to design, ship, and operate distributed systems.

## Qualifications

- 10+ years of software, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps engineering experience, including ownership of production systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and production cluster operations.
- Strong experience with Helm and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or Pulumi, including reusable modules, state management, testing, and change review.
- Hands-on infrastructure experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, with working knowledge of core compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed-service patterns across all three.
- Experience deploying and operating software across customer-controlled, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, or on-premises environments, including adapting cloud-native SaaS products for these deployment models.
- Strong understanding of networking, DNS, ingress, load balancing, certificates, IAM, secrets management, persistent storage, and service-to-service security.
- Experience building and operating CI/CD or GitOps systems, including production releases, upgrades, and rollbacks, with metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerts for incident response.
- Strong software engineering and automation skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, with the ability to work across application and infrastructure layers.
- Experience designing secure, portable production infrastructure, including hardening systems and replacing or abstracting cloud-specific managed services when needed.
- Experience converting a cloud-native SaaS product into a customer-hosted, private-cloud, or on-premises deployment model.
- Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and engineering tools to accelerate development, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, operational analysis, or incident investigation.

## Preferred

- Experience operating in restricted-network, disconnected, regulated, or security-sensitive environments.
- Familiarity with compliance and security frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST, FedRAMP, or related government requirements.
- Experience with service mesh, policy as code, admission controls, software supply-chain security, artifact signing, or software bills of materials.
- Hands-on experience with Crossplane or meaningful contributions to CNCF projects, such as code, documentation, design, or community maintenance.
- Experience supporting long-running, stateful, data-intensive, AI/ML, or GPU-enabled workloads.
- Customer-facing engineering, solutions architecture, or forward-deployed engineering experience.

## Benefits

- 100% employer-paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning with educational reimbursements.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits through [TARA Mind](https://www.taramind.com/).

Up to 20% travel may be required.

If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk!

Salary Range: $180,000-$240,000 + bonus + equity. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

Our Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation):

For full-time roles

- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through [Tara Mind](https://www.taramind.com/).
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through [Crux](https://soon.getcrux.com/).

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

Applicant Data Disclosure

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes. These providers include applicant tracking systems, candidate verification platforms, and fraud detection tools (collectively, "Hiring Platforms"). Your application materials, including your résumé, cover letter, work samples, responses to application questions, and any other information you submit, may be transmitted to and processed by these Hiring Platforms for the following purposes:

- Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;
- Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;
- Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.

Applications that are flagged through this process as containing indicators of fraud or material misrepresentation may be declined from further consideration. If you have questions about the status of your application or the evaluation process, please contact talent@redcellpartners.com.

Red Cell requires its Hiring Platform providers to process your information solely for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. Your information will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfill these purposes and any applicable legal obligations, after which it will be deleted in accordance with Red Cell's data retention policies.

For more information about how your data is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy and [Applicant Privacy Notice](https://www.redcellpartners.com/applicant-privacy-policy/).

## About Red Cell Partners

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm that builds, launches, and scales technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security.
- **Entity Type**: Private (incubation firm) – has raised $497M across the firm and its incubations
- **Headquarters**: McLean, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Grant Verstandig

## Core Business

- Primary industries: Venture building / incubation; practice areas are Healthcare, Cyber, and National Security.
- Target customers: The firm sells to no single customer; it builds B2B companies that serve government agencies, defense organizations, healthcare providers, and enterprise security teams.
- Mission: “To build a healthier, safer, and more secure future for the next generation.” [about page]

## Products & Services

Red Cell does not sell a single product; it operates three practice areas that each incubate separate technology companies:

- **Healthcare Practice**: Incubates companies focused on improving patient outcomes, care delivery, and healthcare operations (e.g., senior living technology, care coordination).
- **Cyber Practice**: Incubates companies in cybersecurity, including AI-driven security operations centers and threat protection.
- **National Security Practice**: Incubates companies in defense, resilience, and national security (e.g., power delivery, disruption response).

## Market Standing

- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private firm).
- **Key Metric**: $497M raised across Red Cell Partners and its portfolio of incubations. [home page]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named, but key executives include Grant Verstandig (Founder, Chairman & CEO), David Silverman (President), George Barnes (President, Cyber Practice), Honorable Veronica Daigle (President, National Security Practice), and Timothy Ferris (President, Healthcare Practice). The firm has acquired companies such as Andesite AI and TRADE SYSTEMS INC. [LinkedIn]
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 75 full-time Red Cell employees (as of June 2026) [home page]. LinkedIn reports 69 employees with +3.4% monthly growth.
  - 9 companies publicly launched; average incubation period of 16 months. [home page]
  - 36 active job postings, up 125% year over year. [LinkedIn]

## Competitive Advantages

- **CIA-Inspired Methodology**: The firm’s name and approach derive from the CIA’s post-9/11 “Red Cell” concept – assembling cross-functional experts to challenge conventional models and propose novel solutions.
- **Vertically Focused Incubation**: Unlike generalist venture builders, Red Cell concentrates exclusively on three mission-critical sectors (healthcare, cyber, national security) where government and enterprise demand is high and regulatory barriers create moats.
- **High Talent Density**: Leaders include former senior government officials and military operators (e.g., George Barnes, former NSA deputy director; Veronica Daigle, former federal judge; Marcus Capone, former Navy SEAL).

## Strategic Focus

- Continue scaling its three practice areas and launching new companies from each.
- Extend incubation capabilities into adjacent defense and healthcare sub-verticals.
- Grow headcount aggressively (job postings up 125% YoY) to support a pipeline of 9+ launched companies and more in stealth.

## Why Work Here

- **Remote-First Culture**: Most roles are fully remote, though some require occasional travel to the Washington, D.C. office or other locations. [careers page]
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision; 14 weeks of paid parental leave at full salary; unlimited PTO (with manager approval); 401K and FSA; professional development budget.
- **Hiring Process**: 4–6 weeks; includes a written application, an initial screen, a skills assessment (live or take-home), peer interviews, and an executive interview. The firm emphasizes “we hire the best and the brightest at every level.” 
- **Culture**: Values include Dedicated, Thorough, Principled, Collaborative, Resilient, Bold, and Visionary. The firm describes itself as mission-first and “safe-to-fail” – action-oriented and focused on learning from mistakes.

## Sources

1. [redcellpartners.com - Home](https://www.redcellpartners.com/)
2. [redcellpartners.com - Careers](https://www.redcellpartners.com/careers/)
3. [redcellpartners.com - About](https://www.redcellpartners.com/about/)
4. [redcellpartners.com - Our People](https://www.redcellpartners.com/our-people/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/red-cell-partners](https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-cell-partners)

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