DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• CI/CD Pipelines — Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple interdependent systems using GitHub Actions. Ensure builds are fast, reliable, and produce correct artifacts.
• Testing Infrastructure — Design and maintain test automation frameworks — including smoke tests, integration tests, and deployment validation — for software that targets physical hardware, not just cloud services. Drive testing coverage and reliability across unique deployment targets.
• Deployment Automation — Automate software packaging and deployment to test systems, bench hardware, and flight test aircraft using Docker, Debian packaging, Ansible, and JFrog Artifactory.
• Artifact Management — Maintain and operate JFrog Artifactory repositories, including promotion pipelines, access control, and CLI tooling for downstream consumers.
• Cross-Team Collaboration — Work with flight software engineers, test pilots, and IT to ensure tooling and infrastructure support development through flight test. Communicate clearly and document processes to drive adoption.
• Process Improvement — Identify bottlenecks in the development and release process, propose solutions, and implement them. Contribute to SDLC maturity and DevOps best practices.

Qualifications:

• 1–3 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability, or a related role

• Strong experience with CI/CD platforms — GitHub Actions preferred; Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI also acceptable

• Experience designing and building test pipelines — writing test jobs, managing test fixtures, interpreting and acting on failures

• Solid experience with Linux system administration (Ubuntu preferred)

• Proficiency with Docker for building, publishing, and deploying container images

• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash

• Comfortable with Git workflows — branching strategies, tagging, release management

• Familiarity with artifact repositories — JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, or similar package/container registries

• Working experience with AWS (EC2, IAM, S3, ECR) and Microsoft Azure — AWS is our primary cloud for engineering infrastructure; both platforms are part of the day-to-day job

• Experience with configuration management tools — Ansible preferred; Chef, Puppet, or similar also acceptable — including managing software and configuration state across physical systems and embedded hardware targets (e.g., bench hardware, flight test aircraft), not just cloud or server infrastructure

• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Nice to Have:

Experience with Debian packaging (dpkg, dch, Launchpad PPAs, or S3-hosted APT repos)
Experience with software products that include a physical systems component — aircraft, robotics, medical devices, autonomous vehicles, or similar
Familiarity with distributed pub/sub frameworks (e.g., ROS2) and underlying middleware such as DDS and Zenoh
Knowledge of networking fundamentals and network security best practices
Experience working in a regulated environment (aerospace, automotive, medical) where traceability and process compliance matter
Experience with government-aligned or compliance-driven cloud environments — Azure Government, GCC High, FedRAMP, or similar
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools — Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
Familiarity with security scanning tools — SAST, SCA, SBOM generation, or container scanning
Experience working in GCC High (Microsoft Azure Government Community Cloud) or other FedRAMP/DoD-compliant cloud environments
Familiarity with dev containers and containerized development environments
Familiarity with orchestration techniques for automated regression and simulation-level integration testing (e.g., ReSim or similar frameworks)