# Lead DevOps Engineer at Pelico

- Company: Pelico
- What the company does: Pelico’s manufacturing orchestration management platform empowers factory teams with the agility required to respond to supply chain disruptions and deliver on time. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.pelico.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: US: Miami, Austin, or Boston
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pelico/fc5444d3-ee85-4170-bc1e-a553b0d55dad
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pelico-lead-devops-engineer/

## About the role

Pelico runs as an elegant set of ~20 microservices that deploy on a single VM — and scale to Kubernetes for the enterprise. As we grow in the US, our most important deployments are also our hardest: aerospace and defense customers who run Pelico on their own air-gapped, on-premise infrastructure — where their IT team operates the product and we have no access to the cluster, the logs, or the data.

## What they're looking for

- Deep, current hands-on Kubernetes + Helm + Terraform/IaC and Docker/Compose, managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS/AKS) and on-prem/bare-metal
- Observability you can ship into places you can't reach — Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, designing diagnostics and remediation for customer self-operation
- A record of owning committed enterprise deliverables end-to-end with customer IT — RACI, SLAs, checkpoints, scope — and hitting the dates
- Leading by example — you set the bar by doing, ideally you've managed ~3+ engineers, or you're an exceptional hands-on tech lead ready to build and run a small team
- Comfort treating security & operability as infrastructure — you've operated in regulated, customer-owned, or on-prem environments and design for auditability and self-service

Tags: Engineering