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Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form!\nIn recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.\nWorking for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.\nFeeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.\nRole Description\nOur Engineering Automation & AI Toolchain team builds the internal developer platform that consists of Formation (our GitOps-driven internal developer platform), Patina (the toolchain and developer-experience layer) and Manifold (the configuration and telemetry pipeline that ties them together).\nThe design problem to solve is running it efficiently, comprehensively, and accurately, which means Day-2 operations engineered to hold up against company growth, product maturity, and the entropy that accumulates in anything left running. We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own that problem: migrating a live legacy estate onto the platform, extending its reach into the parts of the company and toolchain it does not serve yet, and designing the operational regime that keeps all of it honest as it scales. \nRelocation assistance is available. \nWhat you'll do:\nLead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, through decommissioning.\n\nDesign migration strategy, including sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation.\n\nMinimize disruption to dependent teams and turn one-off migrations into repeatable patterns.\n\nExtend the platform to new teams and toolchains, defining and documenting integration patterns.\n\nDesign Day-2 operations for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at future scale.\n\nBuild auditing for configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle.\n\nMaintain and review IaC, pipeline, and configuration standards.\n\nDesign monitoring and alerting, and define SLOs with internal customers.\n\nLead complex incident response and drive postmortems to structural fixes.\n\nBuild automation and agent workflows with appropriate guardrails and human review.\n\nCodify expertise into runbooks and tooling others can run.\n\nShare technical leadership on design reviews, key decisions, and platform initiatives.\n\nMentor junior engineers and delegate effectively.\n\nPartner with IT, Security, Data, and operations teams.\n\nWrite design docs, decision records, and standards.\n\nImplement security and compliance controls, and automate audit evidence.\n\nModel and forecast cloud cost and capacity.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n7-10 years of related experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.\n\nDemonstrated experience migrating production systems off legacy infrastructure and onto a new platform - sequencing, coexistence, cutover, and rollback - without disrupting the teams that depend on them.\n\nWide-ranging hands-on depth across AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code - demonstrated experience resolving complex infrastructure problems that required in-depth evaluation of competing factors, not just applying a known procedure.\n\nDemonstrated experience operating and scaling CI/CD and GitOps delivery systems, including leading incident response in complex, multi-system environments and converting failures into structural fixes.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading technical work through others - directing engineers on an initiative, mentoring, and driving design review - and working effectively with partners outside your own area of expertise.\n\nEnough hard-won depth to supervise AI-generated work: you can tell correct from merely plausible in infrastructure code and operational output, and you know which of its shortcuts are safe to take.\n\n#LI-Onsite\nHumanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. \nWhen it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. \nTo build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.\nIf you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact . Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.\nForm Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. 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