Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SimpliGov is building an AI-native product development lifecycle in which autonomous agents participate in planning, coding, validation, and release while humans retain judgment, standards, and direction. The AI Operations Engineer will evolve the release infrastructure into an AI-enabled CI/CD system, building automation, reconciliation, observability, release policy, and safety mechanisms for reliable production delivery.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the agentic CI/CD stack: autonomous build loops, build gates, integration validation, progressive rollout, and rollback
- Extend our reconciliation layer so system truth is machine-derived rather than human-claimed: affected services, ticket-to-commit linkage, deploy-vs-release state, flag state
- Build the mission control layer: one live, machine-derived picture of what is built, validated, deployed, released, and flagged, serving humans and agents alike
- Design the human-in-the-loop model: when agents proceed autonomously, when they stop, who is escalated to, and with what evidence
- Instrument agent behavior end to end (traces, evaluations, failure and drift analysis) so every autonomous action is explainable and auditable
- Codify release policy as code: what ships, when, and with what proof
- Meter AI usage and cost across the pipeline; drive per-workload routing and unit-economics remediation
- Replace cross-team coordination with contracts, dependency detection, and validation mechanisms
- Partner with DevOps and engineers on pipeline reliability, environment stability, and test coverage
- Evolve the operating process itself: how work flows from commit to validation to release without manual choreography, within a FedRAMP-conscious compliance boundary
Skills
- 5+ years building engineering systems (CI/CD, internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure) in SaaS or platform environments
- You write production code. This role builds and operates systems; it does not track them
- Hands-on depth in pipeline design, integration failure analysis, dependency management, feature flags, and progressive delivery
- Experience operating LLM or agent systems in production, or clear evidence you will get there fast; using AI tools is table stakes, running them safely is the job
- Strong systems thinking, operational rigor, and clear writing
- Experience in compliance-constrained environments (government, healthcare, finance) is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans, with significant employer contributions for employees AND dependents (contributions based on base-level plan; buyup plans available at additional costs)
- Company-sponsored life + disability insurances
- 11 Paid holidays
- Flexible time off
- 401k plan with 4% employer match
- Monthly stipends for wellness and home office expenses
- Bonus
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