Senior DevOps Engineer - GCP

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer GCP

Location : SF Bay Area

Type : Full-time

Team : Platform Engineering

Reports To : Head of Platform Engineering

About Us

WitnessAI is a fast-growing SaaS startup on a mission to enable enterprises to adopt AI, safely. We're building a product that provides security and governance guardrails for public and private LLMs.

About the Role

Were looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer who will take ownership of designing, securing, and scaling the cloud backbone of our AI security platform. Youll be responsible for infrastructure architecture in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a deep focus on networking, VPC security, interconnectivity, and service reliability.

Youll work closely with ML engineers, security researchers, and backend developers to build highly reliable, secure, and performant environments for running AI workloads and security tooling.

What Youll Do

Design, implement, and maintain GCP-based infrastructure for secure AI workloads and APIs

Build and manage scalable, low latency Internet and Cloud networking strategies eg Anycast+, route optimization, and private VPC peering, VPC networks, private service access, peering, and firewall configurations.

Develop secure ingress / egress patterns, service meshes, and zero-trust networking topologies

Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Helm, and CI / CD workflows

Collaborate on platform observability : logging, monitoring, alerting, and incident response

Harden cloud infrastructure against threats using IAM best practices, organization policies, and GCP security controls

Work cross-functionally with engineering, data science, and security teams to optimize environment reliability and cost

Help establish infrastructure SLAs, SLOs, and runbooks as the platform scales

What Were Looking For

7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability, or DevOps

Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including VPC networking, Cloud NAT, private services, and inter-project connectivity

Strong knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices

Proficiency with container orchestration (Kubernetes / GKE preferred)

Experience designing for high availability, scalability, and secure access across cloud environments

Familiarity with service mesh tools (Istio, Linkerd, etc.) and API gateways

Solid understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and network security principles

Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with ownership and autonomy

Bonus : Experience in regulated or high-security environments (SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, etc.)

Bonus : Exposure to ML infrastructure, GPU workloads, or data pipelines, including VPC networking, Cloud NAT, private services, and inter-project connectivity

Benefits :

Hybrid work environment

Competitive salary, health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Opportunities for professional development and growth

Generous vacation policy

Salary range :

$168K-$225K (Bay Area)

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