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The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them.\nWho we are looking for\nSlate is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to set the technical direction for how we build, run and operate our infrastructure, and to build a large share of it yourself. We don't separate DevOps from SRE. The team that builds the platform also runs it, carries the pager, and is accountable for its reliability.\nOur AWS foundation is in place: a governed multi-account environment, private connectivity between the cloud and our sites, and infrastructure as code throughout. Next is a hybrid Kubernetes platform that spans Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters in our own facilities, serving our digital, data, manufacturing and enterprise teams. You will design that platform and help ship it.\nThis is a hands-on role. You'll lead through architecture, code and example rather than through direct reports, and you'll take your turn on call like everyone else on the team. You will report to the leader of the DevOps team and work closely with Digital, Data Engineering, IT, Manufacturing Systems and Security.\nThe Hands-On Architect: You design systems and then build them. You're as comfortable writing a design doc as you are writing a CDK construct in Python or a Helm chart, and you can tell a platform people choose to use from one they are forced to use.\nThe Reliability Owner: You think in SLOs and failure modes. You've been paged at 2 a.m., you've written the postmortem, and you've made sure the same thing didn't page anyone again.\nThe Hybrid Thinker: You know when a workload belongs in the cloud and when it belongs next to the machines it talks to. You weigh latency, cost, data gravity and operational burden, and you can explain the trade-off to people who don't work in infrastructure.\nThe Force Multiplier: You'd rather build a paved road than approve every request by hand. Other teams ship faster because of what you build and document.\nWhat you get to do\n Architect the Hybrid Kubernetes Platform: Define and build Slate's Kubernetes ecosystem across Amazon EKS and self-managed clusters running on virtualized infrastructure provided by our IT team. Own the reference architecture for cluster provisioning, multi-cluster management (such as Rancher), networking, identity, secrets, storage and upgrades.\nSet the Direction for Our AWS Foundation: Evolve our multi-account AWS environment, including account governance and guardrails, identity and access management, and the networking and DNS that connect the cloud to our sites. Decide where new workloads live and how they connect.\n Build the Reliability Practice: Establish our on-call rotation, SLOs and error budgets, alerting standards, incident response and blameless postmortems. Stand up the observability (metrics, logs, traces and synthetic checks) that tells us something is wrong before our users do.\n Enable the Teams We Serve: Partner with our Digital teams (customer-facing website and backend services), Data Engineering, Manufacturing Systems and enterprise application teams. Give them well-supported paths: CI/CD templates, deployment patterns, reusable infrastructure libraries and self-service environments.\nPlan for What's Next: Shape how the platform supports manufacturing and plant-floor workloads, data pipelines, and emerging AI and agentic workloads, whether each one runs on-premises or in the cloud.\nBuild In Security and Cost Discipline: Make least-privilege access, policy guardrails, secrets management and software supply chain controls the default. Keep cloud spend visible and deliberate through tagging, right-sizing and commitment planning.\nShip and Mentor: Write production infrastructure and code every week. Lead design reviews, mentor engineers on the team and across the organization, and write the documentation and runbooks that let others move without waiting on you.\nWhat you bring to the team\n10+ years in DevOps, site reliability, platform or infrastructure engineering, including several years setting technical direction for production platforms.\nDeep AWS Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience designing and operating production AWS environments across many accounts, including multi-account governance, identity and access management, VPC networking and hybrid connectivity, DNS, EKS, containers, serverless and managed data services. An AWS Professional or Specialty certification is a plus.\nKubernetes in Production, in the Cloud and On-Premises: Proven experience running Kubernetes in production on EKS and on self-managed clusters built on VMs or bare metal, including cluster lifecycle, CNI networking, ingress, storage, RBAC and upgrades. Experience with Rancher or a comparable multi-cluster management platform is a strong plus.\nPython and Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with infrastructure as code; AWS CDK is strongly preferred. Our platform code is written in Python, so strong Python skills are required. You can read, understand and make targeted changes to TypeScript, which some of our application teams use.\n CI/CD and GitOps: Experience building delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar tools, and deploying to Kubernetes with GitOps tooling (Argo CD or Flux), Helm and Kustomize.\n Reliability Engineering: A track record of establishing SLOs, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch or similar), incident management and on-call practices, and of participating in on-call yourself.\nHybrid Networking: A solid grasp of networking across cloud and on-premises environments: routing, VPN, DNS, load balancing, certificates and firewalls, and how each of them fails.\nTechnical Leadership Without Authority: Ability to drive architectural decisions across teams you don't manage, write clear design documents, and bring skeptical stakeholders along.\nStartup Orientation: Comfort in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment. You know how to ship, how to cut scope without cutting corners, and how to improve a system while it's running.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nNice to have\nExposure to manufacturing, industrial or OT environments and the constraints of running software near the plant floor.\nExperience running GPU, machine learning or AI and agentic workloads on Kubernetes.\nFamiliarity with enterprise virtualization platforms such as VMware.\nPolicy as code (OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno), service mesh, or GitHub Enterprise administration.\nWORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIREMENT\n Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.\nSALARY RANGE\nThe compensation for this position is the range Slate reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; work location; and other relevant business and organizational factors.\n$155,854.00 - $233,781.00 USD Annual\nADDITIONAL COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS\nSlate offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in the equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs.\nWHY JOIN TEAM SLATE?\nAt Slate, we’re fueled by grit, determination, and attention to detail. The start-up spirit of ingenuity and resourcefulness move our business forward. Team Slate fosters a culture of excellence, innovation, and mutual respect, and is motivated by shared principles.\nSafety First\n\nDelight Customers\n\nOne Team\n\nRelentless Improvement\n\nFast, Frugal, and Scrappy\n\nRespectful Collaboration\n\nPositive Legacy\n\nWE WANT TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE.\nSlate is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.\nSlate is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. 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