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We started with voice, the hardest and most valuable channel in insurance, and are now expanding into full workflow automation across sales, servicing, and claims. Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations. We've raised $72M to date, including a $50M Series B in October 2025, backed by top-tier venture firms.\nAbout The Role\nWe are looking for a seasoned Staff DevOps and Platform Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure that powers Liberate’s real-time AI voice and workflow automation systems. This is a critical technical leadership role. You will inherit and advance a modern AWS-based platform that spans PBX telephony, canary routing, MTLS-based integrations with carriers, secure production environments, CI/CD, and compliance posture.\nYou will drive reliability, scalability, and operational rigor across our multi-agent runtime. You will also mentor engineers, design forward-looking system improvements, and create the platform foundations that enable Liberate’s rapid product expansion.\nKey Responsibilities\nInfrastructure Architecture and Ownership\nLead architecture and operation of core AWS infrastructure including PBX systems, EKS, networking, IAM, VPC design, and secure environment isolation.\nOwn and improve Canary routing infrastructure for LRA (LLM REST API) via Traefik and GitOps patterns.\nMaintain and optimize CI/CD flows including GitHub-based CodeBuild jobs, artifact pipelines, and environment promotion workflows.\nSecure Integrations and Network Edge\nManage and evolve MTLS proxy infrastructure used to integrate with carrier systems like Frontline.\nOwn HAProxy-based proxy fleet, certificate lifecycle, root CA management, and IP-restricted ingress patterns.\nEnsure secure, audited access to production systems, tokens, and root-level accounts.\nOperational Excellence\nLead incident response, on-call rotations, and postmortems. Improve reliability metrics (SLA/SLO/SLI) for voice, agent runtime, and workflow systems.\nMaintain and improve non-obvious production infra details including external service dependencies, version pinning, and update cadences.\nPartner with AWS Support to optimize pricing, scaling configs, and resource utilization.\nCI/CD, Tooling, and Developer Experience\nModernize developer workflows: streamlined builds, repeatable environments, safe deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).\nBuild internal tools and abstractions to make engineers productive while enforcing safety, configuration hygiene, and compliance requirements.\nCompliance and Security\nLead infrastructure-related components of SOC2, pen-testing, and Vanta-driven controls.\nEnsure auditability, traceability, secure storage of credentials, and alignment with enterprise customer expectations.\nCross-Functional Leadership\nWork closely with AI Platform, Forward Deployed Engineering, and Product teams to translate business goals into scalable infrastructure decisions.\nMentor engineers across DevOps, platform, and backend areas. Help set engineering standards and raise operational maturity across the org.\nRequired Qualifications\n 8+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience operating production systems at scale.\nDeep hands-on AWS expertise (EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, KMS).\nStrong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and multi-environment management.\nProficiency with Terraform or other IaC tools and GitOps workflows.\nHigh proficiency in Python, Go, or Typescript for tooling, automation, and internal platform services.\nExperience with Traefik, HAProxy, or similar load-balancing and routing systems.\nFamiliarity with secure network architectures, MTLS, certificate hierarchies, and service-to-service authentication.\nStrong background managing CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions and CodeBuild.\nAbility to lead incidents, design SLOs, and drive reliability across mission-critical systems.\nExcellent communication and leadership skills in distributed teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with PBX or telephony systems in AWS, SIP routing, or real-time communication pipelines.\nExperience with voice agents, WebRTC, or low-latency streaming services.\nPrior work in regulated or enterprise environments where compliance is a first-class requirement.\nExperience scaling infra in fast-growth startups.\nContributions to open source, infrastructure design talks, or technical publications.\nWhy This Role Matters\nOur platform supports real-time, multi-agent reasoning and voice workflows that depend on low latency, reliability, and airtight security. 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