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# Remote - AI-First SRE/DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Datadog, Istio, Large Language Models, Containerization, Kubernetes, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** July 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gglx6i

## About the Role

* 3-5 years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.

 * Strong Kubernetes operational experience - running it in production, not just deploying to it.

 * Demonstrable adoption of an AI-First mindset and tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf). Daily use of at least one AI development tool is a must.

 * Fluency with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and modern CI/CD; comfortable scripting and building tooling (Go or Python preferred).

 * Cloud-native depth on at least one major cloud provider.

 * Solid observability expertise and SLO-driven operations experience.

 * Experience with containerization (Docker) and service mesh concepts. * Experience building or operating LLM infrastructure: inference gateways, eval/observability tooling, agentic orchestration.

 * Data-pipeline and streaming/CDC experience.

 * Security or identity background; familiarity with post-quantum cryptography or supply-chain security.

Prior experience at an early-stage startup.



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