About Swoop:
Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment - consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets, allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing node. In the physical world. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week
What You’ll Do:
Package and automate our Platform, which includes Linux and Kubernetes software, to deploy on bare metal and the cloud, in both internet-connected and secure air gap environments
Develop CI pipelines and test automation for the deployment of our Platform software
Assist developers with Linux and Kubernetes issues
Assist deployment engineers with Platform issues
Manage and monitor development CI resources that run the Platform using the test automation
You Should Have:
Bash/shell and python scripting experience
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
A propensity to automate everything you do
Thorough experience with Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Linux based Containerization such as Docker
Experience working both in the terminal and with user interfaces required for managing IT resources
Familiarity with virtualization technologies, creating and managing VMs using industry standard tools such as VMWare, Proxmox, and KVM
Experience managing backup resources, snapshots, and conducting failover events
Experience using git version control and DevOps software such as Gitlab
Experience creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Ability and willingness to obtain a US Security Clearance
Bonus if you have:
Experience in hardening infrastructure resources such as STIGing and firewall work.
Ansible, Terraform, and AWS experience
Networking expertise
Experience packaging internal and internet-based software to work in air gap environments
Experience developing and deploying Kubernetes Helm charts
Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Skills Required
- Bash/shell scripting experience
- Python scripting experience
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
- Propensity to automate workflows and tasks
- Thorough experience with Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
- Containerization experience (Docker)
- Experience working in terminal and with UIs for IT resource management
- Familiarity with virtualization (VMWare, Proxmox, KVM)
- Experience managing backups, snapshots, and conducting failover events
- Experience using Git and DevOps tooling such as GitLab
- Experience creating, troubleshooting, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Ability and willingness to obtain a US Security Clearance
- Experience in hardening infrastructure (STIGs) and firewall configuration
- Ansible, Terraform, and AWS experience
- Networking expertise
- Experience packaging software for air-gapped environments
- Experience developing and deploying Kubernetes Helm charts
What We Do
Swoop is building a secure, distributed operating system, allowing our customers to securely harness their data and construct a programmable, autonomous edge. The edge is where digital rubber meets the real-world road. Where data is produced, consumed, or networked to accomplish an objective. It is covered in assets -- chips, memory, networking interfaces -- that comprise a distributed computing platform. The edge is strategically important and asset-rich. Swoop is helping unlock its potential, so that search and analysis no longer end simply with incremental insights or neatly organized search results, but with autonomous action directly at the edge. Swoop's technology has been deployed in some of the world's most sophisticated environments. Our team is purposeful in directing our technology toward solving important problems. We are building for a future where advancements in critical infrastructure, smart grids, supply chains, and manufacturing are programmed into existing systems -- rapidly, adaptive, and economically feasible.
