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You impose order on ambiguity, you reason fluently about operating software you can't see, and you'd rather build self-service than fight fires., * A track record operating enterprise software in environments you didn't fully control - customer-owned / on-prem / air-gapped - or equivalent depth standing up regulated / government-cloud (GovCloud / FedRAMP) environments (deep experience in either counts; the other is a fast ramp). * Deep, current hands-on Kubernetes + Helm + Terraform/IaC and Docker/Compose; managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS) and on-prem/bare-metal. * Observability you can ship into places you can't reach - Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk; designing diagnostics and remediation for customer self-operation. * A record of owning committed enterprise deliverables end-to-end with customer IT - RACI, SLAs, checkpoints, scope - and hitting the dates. * Leading by example - you set the bar by doing; ideally you've managed ~3+ engineers, or you're an exceptional hands-on tech lead ready to build and run a small team. * Comfort treating security & operability as infrastructure - you've operated in regulated, customer-owned, or on-prem environments and design for auditability and self-service. Nice to have: * GovCloud and/or FedRAMP experience (strongly preferred / expected) - AWS GovCloud / Azure Government / GCP Assured Workloads, or having taken a system through FedRAMP (Moderate/High), IL, or CMMC authorization. This is now the most probable near-term direction for the role - a strong, expected plus, not a hard requirement. * Aerospace / defense / government / regulated on-prem experience; air-gap or ITAR/EAR exposure. * A real self-service / platform-engineering philosophy (golden paths, self-remediation). * AI-native ways of working - scoped tasks, heavy context, retained ownership. * Secrets management, backup/DR, upgrade/migration tooling for disconnected sites; Fargate/ECS. If you bring the essentials and a strong mix of the rest, we want to hear from you - we're hiring the person who'll make this real, not a checklist. ## Description * Make it operable without us. Design the observability and self-remediation story for air-gapped, customer-run environments - shipped diagnostics, remediation playbooks, health checks, alert auto-classification. Go deep: auto-diagnose and auto-remediate, not just "rerun the pipeline." * Package it for any environment. Build the Helm charts, Compose stacks, and Terraform/IaC for Pelico's real deployment variants - on-prem single-VM, air-gapped Kubernetes, and private-cloud (GKE/GKS, EKS, AKS) - deployable by customer IT with clean runbooks. * Deliver on the commitment. Turn an enterprise deliverable - "ship a GKS Helm chart in a month, with three people" - into a roadmap with weekly checkpoints, MVP scope, and a date you hit. * Make it repeatable - and federal-ready. Turn bespoke deployments into repeatable tooling that gets current and committed customers live without heroics - and stand up Pelico's federal posture (GovCloud / FedRAMP, controls as code), now a co-primary track and the most probable near-term direction. * Set the boundary. Sit with customer IT and security months ahead, agree the RACI and SLAs, and draw an unambiguous line between what's theirs and what's ours. * Lead by doing. Stay hands-on (you'll choose ~20-50% infra work), set the bar, grow your engineers, and bring AI tooling into the team the right way. Your Impact * Pelico's US growth runs straight through the most demanding deployments in the industry. Whether they succeed comes down to one question: can a customer's IT team operate Pelico without us in the room? 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