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You’ll play a critical role in bridging our continuously deployed SaaS platform with shrink-wrapped customer-hosted releases, ensuring alignment, consistency, and operational excellence across all footprints. This is a deeply technical role that sits at the intersection of infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and secure automation, ideal for engineers who thrive in complex, regulated, and hybrid environments.\nWHO WE ARE:\nHiddenLayer protects the world’s most valuable technologies from adversarial AI attacks. We were founded by AI professionals and security specialists with first-hand experience of how insidious adversarial AI attacks can be to detect and defend against. Determined to prove that these attacks were preventable, the team developed a unique, patent-pending, productized solution to support organizations in accelerating their adoption of AI securely. \nOur dedication to innovation has been recognized by prestigious awards such as RSA's Innovation Sandbox Winner, CB Insights AI 100, CyberTech 100, and SC's Most Promising Early-Stage Start-up.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\nLead deployment and lifecycle management of our multi-prem platform across commercial cloud, bare-metal, air-gapped, and IL4+ environments.\nBuild and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc.) to automate consistent deployments across customer sites.\nEnsure our customer-hosted builds (“shrink-wrapped” software) remain closely aligned with our continuously deployed SaaS platform.\nMaintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container build pipelines (EKS, K0s, AKS, or on-prem distributions).\nImplement secure and reproducible container image build pipelines, aligned with our internal release processes.\nCollaborate with Engineering teams to harden deployments for regulated, classified, and air-gapped customer systems.\nDocument and version deployment patterns, templates, and procedures to support both automation and accreditation workflows.\nSupport incident response, troubleshooting, and upgrade cycles across multiple platform footprints.\nContribute to the overall architecture and evolution of the multi-prem reference design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security parity with SaaS.\nWHO YOU ARE (REQUIRED):\nU.S. Citizen (required) and eligible for U.S. Government clearance (Secret or higher preferred).\nProven success deploying and operating complex systems across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.\nDeep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes orchestration, container pipelines, and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).\nStrong foundation in networking concepts: DNS, routing, VPC design, VPNs, firewalls, and service meshes.\nProficient with secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).\nExperience maintaining Linux systems, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch), and automation tooling.\nFamiliarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD SRG, or NIST 800-53.\nWHO YOU ARE (PREFERRED):\n5+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.\nExperience deploying workloads into AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other regulated cloud environments.\nExperience deploying and maintaining software in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments.\nKnowledge of supply chain security (SLSA, SBOM, image signing, provenance).\nBackground in AI/ML or data-centric security platforms is a plus.\nFamiliarity with Temporal, Kafka, or distributed systems architecture.\nExperience maintaining multi-tenant platform parity between SaaS and customer-hosted versions.\nWHY HIDDENLAYER?\nWe just raised $100M in Series B funding led by Delta-v Capital, with backing from Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's venture arm, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others. It's a validation of what we've built: 10x revenue growth, 50+ new enterprise customers, and deployments across defense, finance, and the world's largest AI platforms. This funding goes straight into expanding our platform and GTM capabilities, and into growing our team globally.\nAttracting and retaining the very best people is our #1 priority. That’s why we offer our team best-in-class benefits, including:\nFully Remote: We are a completely remote global team. Though we’re distributed, we are intentional about getting the team together a couple of times a year. We offer a generous stipend for your home office setup, annual upgrades to ensure you have a comfortable workspace and a monthly stipend for internet/phone expenses. \nComprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits: Better than your average startup healthcare benefits. With five options to choose from, of which are fully subsidized by HiddenLayer, we offer a variety of options to fit each person’s needs. We also offer vision, dental, and 401k offerings.\nFlexible Time Off: Enjoy unlimited and flexible time off for all salaried employees, in addition to 15 paid company holidays.\nCommitment to Learning and Development: We support personal growth and education through a dedicated L&D fund that can be used for training, conferences, certifications and industry events.\nDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We are committed to building a diverse team with individuals from various backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.\nTo learn more about HiddenLayer visitHiddenLayer and follow us onLinkedIn or Twitter.\nHiddenLayer is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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