DevOps Engineer

Worker Type

Job Description
 

Summary

The primary role of the DevOps Engineer is to play a critical part in sustaining and enhancing reporting tools that support mission success. Your efforts will include expanding collaboration platforms, installing and configuring complex software, managing servers and networks, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues to keep operations running smoothly.

Position Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage applications across distributed environments.

• Install, configure, and optimize complex software solutions.

• Administer servers, networks, and technology tools to ensure reliability

• Monitor and maintain systems to meet stringent security and performance standards

• Troubleshoot and resolve outages, ensuring mission continuity

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) is required or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

• Minimum 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role. 

• Expertise with: Linux administration, AWS, MASH, and VMs for cloud and virtualization, Networking, Firewalls, and Load Balancers, Terraform scripting and VM provisioning, Deployments of distributed web applications, Docker, Docker Compose, and Docker Swarm container technologies, Public Key Infrastructure for secure authentication, and Git for version control and collaboration.

• An active TS/SCI with polygraph

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies: 

• eVo, CoDE, and UWE environments

• API Gateways for secure and scalable integrations

• Ansible scripting and development for automation and configuration management

• Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK) maintenance and configuration for observability

• Python scripting and development for automation and tool building

• Relational Databases such as Amazon RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL, or Percona

• HAProxy for load balancing and high availability

• MongoDB for NoSQL data management

• Java / Spring Boot troubleshooting with error log analysis

• Kafka Message Broker for distributed messaging

• Hazelcast Memory Cache for in-memory data processing

• NiFi maintenance and configuration for data flow automation

• Kubernetes for container orchestration

• Zookeeper for distributed system coordination

• Nginx Web Server for hosting and reverse proxying

• Monitoring and Alerting tools to ensure system reliability

• Agile software development practices for iterative delivery

• Jira and Confluence for project tracking and documentation

Physical Demands 

• Ability to work in an office environment (Constant) 

• Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent) 

Salary Range: $150,000 - $220,000

The AV pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several factors including, but not limited to, level of position, job responsibilities, geographic location, scope of relevant work experience, educational background, certifications, contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements, alignment with local internal equity as well as alignment with market data.

Clearance Level
 

ITAR Requirement:

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (“ITAR”) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’s business requirements. A “U.S. person” according to the ITAR definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. See 22 CFR § 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

Benefits:  AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.  For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit:  http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.

We also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.

Principals only need apply.  NO agencies please.

Who We Are

Based in California, AeroVironment (AVAV) is a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems. Founded in 1971 by celebrated physicist and engineer, Dr. Paul MacCready, we’ve been at the leading edge of technical innovation for more than 45 years. Be a part of the team that developed the world’s most widely used military drones and created the first submarine-launched reconnaissance drone, and has seven innovative vehicles that are part of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection in Washington, DC.

Join us today in developing the next generation of small UAS and tactical missile systems that will deliver more actionable intelligence to our customers so they can proceed with certainty – and succeed.

What We Do

Building on a history of technological innovation, AeroVironment designs, develops, produces, and supports an advanced portfolio of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems.  Agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense and allied military services use the company’s hand-launched UAS to provide situational awareness to tactical operating units through real-time, airborne reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition.

We are proud to be an EEO/AA Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans. AeroVironment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic data, sexual orientation, gender identity or other legally protected status.

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