Staff DevOps Engineer

🏢 Ontic · 📍 Austin, Texas, United States · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Who We Are

Ontic provides software that helps corporate and government security teams identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to keep people and organizations safe. Its AI-powered Connected Intelligence Platform unifies security operations and data into a centralized system of record, enabling organizations to conduct risk assessments, protect against workplace violence, and manage threats and incidents more efficiently. Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies rely on Ontic to support security programs such as executive protection, threat intelligence, and corporate investigations. Learn more at ontic.ai or follow us on LinkedIn.

Who You Are

We’re seeking a DevOps Engineering leader to architect and operate secure, scalable Kubernetes platforms across AWS and AWS GovCloud, including FedRAMP-authorized environments. This person will drive zero-trust security, Terraform and GitOps automation, observability, reliability, disaster recovery, and cost governance for both multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments. They’ll also provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and partner closely with Security and Engineering to evolve Ontic’s platform strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Platform Architecture

Lead the design and governance of scalable, resilient, Kubernetes platforms across approved cloud environments and FedRAMP authorization boundaries
Define standardized blueprints for multi-tenant and dedicated enterprise deployments
Architect high-availability, multi-AZ, and disaster recovery strategies aligned with RTO/RPO objectives
System inventory, authorized-boundary ownership, significant-change assessment, and approved-cloud-boundary wording.

DevSecOps & Zero-Trust Security

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Ontic Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluators strictly measure your ability to handle complex physical and digital security intelligence workflows, assessing your operational judgment under high-stakes, ambiguous threat scenarios.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating physical security as a purely administrative or compliance checkbox rather than a dynamic threat surface
2. Failing to show cross-functional empathy between corporate security, IT, and legal teams
3. Lack of direct experience dealing with enterprise-grade threat monitoring

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build protective intelligence workflows that transform fragmented risk data into decisive operational actions before threats materialize.

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