Washington

Salary
$160,000–$180,000from the description
Posted
Jul 21, 2026
Location
Washington
Last confirmed open
Jul 22, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior infrastructure role focused on maintaining and evolving cloud and HPC environments for a weather intelligence platform. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes-based cloud services, SLURM-based scientific computing clusters, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and self-service developer tooling, with an emphasis on integrating AI-powered tooling into DevOps workflows. Suits experienced platform or SRE engineers comfortable with on-call responsibilities and cross-functional collaboration with both software engineers and scientists.

Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time

Must have (7)
AWS, GCP or AzureTerraform or CrossplaneKubernetesCI/CDDatadogPython, Node or GoAI coding agents
Nice to have (5)
MLOpsSLURMAWS ParallelCluster or Azure CyclecloudLustre or NfsClaude Code or GitHub Copilot

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 11,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,850–17,300

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Terraform11%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Python51%CI/CD45%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (9)

The role is titled 'Senior DevOps Engineer' but the posting also uses 'DevOps Engineer' interchangeably; the advertised level is Senior.

The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role emphasizes building self-service platforms, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and MLOps integrations (signals for 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/SRE flavor (on-call, monitoring, reliability) that could support 15-1244. The primary day-to-day work leans toward building and shipping infrastructure code.

Cloud platform requirement is stated as 'AWS, GCP, or Azure' — these are listed as interchangeable alternatives under a single must-have gate. Terraform and Crossplane are similarly listed as interchangeable IaC options.

Monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) are listed as a group under required experience; Datadog is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since the posting treats them as a set.

Scripting languages Python, Node.js, and Go are listed together as required proficiency; Python is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.

'Daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, etc.) — must' is explicitly flagged as required in the qualifications. Building agentic DevOps workflows is called out as 'a plus' and captured separately as preferred.

HPC/scientific computing experience (SLURM, AWS ParallelCluster, Azure CycleCloud) and parallel filesystems (Lustre, NFS) are listed under 'Bonus' and are marked preferred.

No specific location is stated; the role appears to be remote-eligible based on references to distributed teams and time zones. The US export control restriction limits candidates to US persons.

The posting notes salary is 'subject to local market and candidate skills and experience,' suggesting the $160k–$180k range may vary by geography.

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