Senior/Staff DevOps Engineer

<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About Ethos </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ethos is on a mission to bridge the human readiness gap by transforming how training is developed, consumed, and aligned with strategic business outcomes. As a well-funded Series A startup ($40M+ raised), we’re a trusted partner to 150+ enterprise customers across the U.S. military, life sciences, manufacturing, supply chain, and professional sports.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We’re expanding our engineering team to deliver a best-in-class learning platform—smarter, faster, and more optimized. We’ve gone all-in on AI tooling in our development process, and we’re accepting and expanding upon the best new practices for creating software in this era.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About the Role </span></p> <p>You’ll lead the deployment and operationalization of our SaaS products across <strong>Commercial Cloud</strong>, <strong>government networks</strong>, and <strong>bespoke/air-gapped</strong> customer environments. As a <strong>Senior</strong> engineer, you’ll own end-to-end infrastructure delivery, elevate DevOps practices, and collaborate closely with Software and Product. As a <strong>Staff </strong>engineer, you’ll additionally shape <strong>platform engineering strategy</strong>, set technical direction for distributed systems at scale, and influence design patterns that enable AI workloads and complex data pipelines. You’ll treat AI tooling as core to your daily workflow — for IaC, pipelines, incident response, and toil reduction — and help shape the agentic operations patterns and AI workloads our platform runs.</p> <p><em>If you love solving hard deployment problems, care deeply about security and reliability, can scale modern cloud platforms with rigor, and embrace AI-augmented operations as the way forward, this role is for you.</em></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What You’ll Do </span></p> <ul> <li><strong>Design & Operate the Platform:</strong> Architect, implement, and run secure, scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure (infra as code, immutable artifacts, GitOps).</li> <li><strong>AI-Augmented Operations & Platform Work:</strong> Use AI coding and agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, MCP-based ops agents) for IaC authoring, pipeline development, log/trace analysis, postmortem drafting, and toil reduction; build and improve agentic workflows for the team.</li> <li><strong>CI/CD & Release Engineering:</strong> Build and harden pipelines (build, test, scan, sign, promote, deploy) for multi-envi