Senior DevOps Engineer

Company

Machina Labs is a smart manufacturing company backed by major investors in AI and Deep Tech (Innovation Endeavors, Nvidia NVentures, Lockheed Martin Ventures), founded in 2019 and based in Los Angeles, CA. We are on a mission to build the factory of the future through the development of modular manufacturing solutions that allow our customers to rapidly produce and iterate on their designs using our proprietary robotic sheet metal forming platform. Using our first-of-its-kind software and robotics solution, we are delivering unseen innovation to industries such as aerospace, automotive, and space exploration.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our exciting journey as part of our growing software engineering team. In this role you will build, scale, and own the cloud infrastructure as well as CI/CD and release processes that are a critical part of our advanced robotics manufacturing platform. You’ll play a foundational role in defining how we deploy, secure, monitor, and manage our systems across multiple environments.

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced engineer to take the lead on infrastructure strategy, streamline development workflows, and partner with a high-performing engineering team to deliver reliable, observable, and scalable systems. You’ll be hands-on from day one and grow into a leadership role as we scale. At the baseline, you are a great team player, pragmatic and methodical, passionate about technology, and find the idea of working with giant robots exciting.

What You’ll Do

• Design and manage Azure Gov cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Define and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, enabling consistent and automated deployment workflows
• Manage secrets, certificates, and authentication across services
• Establish and maintain multi-environment deployments and release strategies
• Instrument systems for observability, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing
• Triage infrastructure issues and ultimately guide on-call processes across the engineering team (we are not yet at scale where it is necessary)
• Offload core DevOps responsibilities from IT and provide tooling support for software teams
• Set foundational practices and grow the DevOps function as we scale
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve delivery speed, reliability, and system performance

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms, with Azure as a key requirement
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Strong background in cloud orchestration, release management, and production deployments
• Deep understanding of secrets management, certificates, and secure service communication
• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Proven ability to organize and clean up infrastructure sprawl across cloud platforms
• Experience with containerized deployment (Docker or K8s)
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically when triaging complex systems
• Startup experience and comfort owning systems in a high-ambiguity environment

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting infrastructure for robotics, hardware, or real-time systems
• Exposure to infrastructure cost optimization, access control, or hybrid cloud models
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and other HashiCorp tools (e.g., Vault, Consul)
• Experience with on-call rotations or incident response practices

$150,000 - $180,000 a year

In addition to the provided base salary range, this role also offers performance-based bonuses, comprehensive benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), PTO, and Stock Options

We understand that not all people will tick all the points on the required skills, so if you feel that this job is a great match for your experience and skill set – feel free to apply regardless!

Machina Labs is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with state and federal law.

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