# AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer

Axiad is the identity security company building Axiad Mesh - the identity risk decision platform for the IVIP era. Mesh translates identity exposure into financial impact, prioritizes risk across human, machine, and agentic identities, and drives remediation through existing operational systems. Location: US (Remote or HQ Hybrid) Job Type: Full-time Axiad is seeking a skilled AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering experience to help build and run Mesh, our Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform (IVIP) - a cloud-native microservices platform on Kubernetes spanning human identity, non-human identity (NHI), post-quantum cryptography, and agentic AI identity risk. The ideal candidate has a builder mentality and a strong AI-First mindset: automation and AI are the default, not the afterthought, and infrastructure is something you create, not just maintain. This is a startup environment. You will own real surface area end-to-end, move fast, and ship. The role requires deep operational expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code, along with practical experience running AI/LLM systems in production. If your ins

- **Id**: 825365
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/axiad-ai-first-sredevops-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-21T23:26:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:01:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 109
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4636
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management

## Company

- **Id**: 719630
- **Name**: Axiad
- **Domain**: axiad.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/axiad-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 164000
- **Max usd**: 317000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1332

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Progressive Delivery** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Windsurf** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 109

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T14:21:44Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.403
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 109
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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