Staff DevOps Engineer

Berkeley, CAFull-time2026-10-12 → 2026-11-09

On-site

Core

Own the migration of a live legacy infrastructure estate onto a modern GitOps-driven internal developer platform (Formation, Patina, Manifold) and design Day-2 operations for scale.

Role type

Staff DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Internal developer platform (Formation, Patina, Manifold) and migration tooling for legacy systems

Domain

Energy storage manufacturing / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Legacy infrastructure migration, AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, GitOps, Incident response, Technical leadership, Mentoring, Security compliance, Cloud cost modeling

Preferred skills

Supervising AI-generated infrastructure code, Designing repeatable migration patterns

Technologies

AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC

Responsibilities

Lead migrations from legacy infrastructure to modern platforms, Design migration strategy including sequencing and rollback, Extend platform to new teams, Design Day-2 operations for capacity and lifecycle, Build auditing for configuration drift and secret lifecycle, Lead complex incident response, Mentor junior engineers, Implement security and compliance controls, Model and forecast cloud cost and capacity

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership

About form energy

Form Energy is scaling quickly across research, engineering, and manufacturing, and the integrations, automations, and AI-enabled tools that connect our systems need to be built securely from the start. As Senior Staff DevSecOps Engineer on the IT Engineering & Platforms team, you will define and lead how the team embeds security into the design, build, and operation of integrations, ETL/data pipelines, automations, and custom-built tools — including MCP servers and other AI-agent tooling. You will set secure-development standards for the team, work hands-on building and configuring systems yo