Staff DevOps Engineer
Form Energy · Berkeley, CA
About this role
## Staff DevOps Engineer **Form Energy** is building America’s energy future by revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology that helps keep the electric grid secure and reliable—even during extended periods of stress. ### Role Overview Join the **Engineering Automation & AI Toolchain** team, which builds the internal developer platform: - **Formation** (GitOps-driven internal developer platform) - **Patina** (toolchain + developer-experience layer) - **Manifold** (configuration and telemetry pipeline tying it together) You’ll own the operational challenge of running this platform **efficiently, comprehensively, and accurately**—including **Day-2 operations** that hold up as the company scales. ### What You’ll Do - Lead **migrations** from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, including **decommissioning** - Design migration strategy: **sequencing, cutover, rollback, and validation** - Minimize disruption to dependent teams and turn one-off migrations into **repeatable patterns** - Extend the platform to new teams and toolchains; define and document **integration patterns** - Design **Day-2 operations** for capacity, upgrades, and lifecycle at future scale - Build **auditing** for configuration drift, dependency currency, and secret/certificate lifecycle - Maintain and review **IaC, pipeline, and configuration standards** - Design **monitoring and alerting** and define **SLOs** with internal customers - Lead complex **incident response** and drive postmortems into structural fixes - Build **automation and agent workflows** with appropriate guardrails and human review - Codify expertise into **runbooks** and tooling others can run - Provide technical leadership on design reviews, key decisions, and platform initiatives - Mentor junior engineers and delegate effectively - Partner with **IT, Security, Data, and operations** teams - Write design docs, decision records, and standards - Implement security and compliance controls and automate audit evidence - Model and forecast **cloud cost and capacity** ### What You’ll Bring - **7–10 years** experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering - Proven experience migrating production systems off legacy infrastructure onto a new platform (sequencing, coexistence, cutover, rollback) **without disrupting dependent teams** - Strong hands-on depth across **AWS, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code** - Experience resolving complex infrastructure problems through deep evaluation of competing factors - Experience operating and scaling **CI/CD and GitOps** delivery systems, including leading incident response in complex multi-system environments and converting failures into structural fixes - Ability to lead technical work through others (mentoring, directing engineers, driving design reviews) - Enough depth to supervise AI-generated work—knowing what’s correct vs. merely plausible and which shortcuts are safe ### Additional Info - **Relocation assistance is available** - Form Energy is an **equal opportunity employer** and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply - If you need reasonable accommodations during the interview process, contact **accommodations@formenergy.com** *Note: Form Energy states they will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during recruiting or hiring.*
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