Company Overview
ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers with deep experience in robotics and software, ACS brings together AI, computer vision, precision motion, and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land, air, and maritime environments.
Our flagship product, Bullfrog, is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems — giving warfighters a scalable, cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces, and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S. military and national security community.
Following a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation, ACS is rapidly expanding manufacturing, accelerating Bullfrog deployments, and developing the next generation of autonomous battlefield systems. This is an opportunity to join a proven, fast-moving team and help scale technology with direct, real-world impact on national security.
ACS is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional operations in Alexandria, Virginia; Mountain View, California; and Huntsville, Alabama. For more information, visit allencontrolsystems.com.
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production systems that support a fast-moving defense engineering organization. This engineer will be responsible for the architecture and reliability of our AWS environment and Kubernetes clusters, the infrastructure-as-code that provisions them, and the access controls and secrets management that keep them secure. Working closely with engineering, this individual will build infrastructure that scales with the company while meeting the demands of a security-sensitive, compliance-driven environment. The ideal candidate is comfortable owning production systems end to end, thinks in infrastructure-as-code, and has the judgment to balance velocity with security and reliability.
What You’ll Do:
● Architect, deploy, and manage production workloads on AWS, including core services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
● Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, networking (CNI), and cluster upgrades.
● Author and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.
● Own core networking fundamentals across the environment: DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh.
● Implement least-privilege access controls and secrets management using tools such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
● Own production systems at scale, including reliability, performance, and incident response.
● Partner with engineering to build deployment pipelines and infrastructure that support rapid, secure delivery.
What You’ll Need:
● Experience: 7+ years of professional DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale.
● AWS: Demonstrated hands-on expertise architecting, deploying, and managing production workloads on AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or equivalent core services).
● Kubernetes: Production experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, networking (CNI), and cluster upgrades.
● Terraform: Advanced experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.
● Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh concepts.
● Demonstrated experience implementing least-privilege access controls and secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent).
You’ll Stand Out:
● AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty).
● Experience supporting DoD, defense, or other export-controlled/regulated environments (ITAR, CMMC, FedRAMP, or similar).
● Familiarity with GCC High or other government cloud environments.
● Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD).
● Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).
● Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
What We Offer:
● Competitive salary
● ACS Equity Package
● Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
● Paid Time Off
Allen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Allen Control Systems prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale
- Hands-on expertise architecting, deploying, and managing production workloads on AWS
- Production experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters, including scheduling, networking, and upgrades
- Advanced experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure as code
- Deep understanding of DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh concepts
- Experience implementing least-privilege access controls and secrets management
- AWS certification such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty
- Experience supporting DoD, defense, export-controlled, or regulated environments such as ITAR, CMMC, or FedRAMP
- Familiarity with GCC High or other government cloud environments
- Kubernetes certification such as CKA or CKAD
- Experience with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK monitoring and observability stacks
Allen Control Systems Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is consistently listed as employer-provided medical, dental, and vision insurance, with HSA/FSA options also appearing. Life and disability insurance are additionally noted in public benefits outlines.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are repeatedly referenced across roles via an "ACS Equity Package," indicating broad access to ownership upside. This is positioned as a core element of total rewards alongside salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is explicitly advertised and parental leave is mentioned on public profiles. There are indications of PTO availability early in tenure for hourly roles, suggesting practical access to time off.
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What We Do
Allen Control Systems is a defense technology company for a new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics. ACS is developing counter-drone robotic gun systems targeted at neutralizing attacking drone swarms, drones that are pre-programmed with AI, and drones that are non-jammable. ACS was created to lower the cost per kill of a drone to a few dollars. We do this by combining cutting-edge hardware and software that allows us to point an inexpensive gun that already exists in the field more accurately than anyone ever has before. ACS is a remote organization, with our HQ in Austin, Texas, and an office in Alexandria, Va. If you're passionate about our mission, we’d love to hear from you.
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