Systems Engineer - DevOps

Job : 115340

Business Unit: DRS RADA Technologies

Location:

Germantown, MD

Relocation:
Not Available

Schedule:

A9/80 schedule allows employees to work 80 hours over nine workdays in a two-week period, withevery other Friday off.

Shift: First

DRS RADA Technologies is hiring an on-site Systems Engineer – Dev Ops in Germantown, Maryland.

We’re looking for a Dev Ops engineer to develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for our software-defined radar systems. This role involves working across virtualized environments and custom hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) infrastructure to support rapid, reliable software integration and testing.

As a subsidiary of Leonardo DRS, DRS RADA Technologies delivers proprietary radar solutions and supports legacy avionics systems for defense customers around the world. The company is a recognized pioneer in AESA tactical radar technology, supporting missions such as active military protection, counter-drone operations, critical infrastructure security, and border surveillance.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (groovy) to support validation of radar software releases
• Develop and maintain Dev Ops infrastructure in local-hosted air-gapped environment, managing physical and virtual test assets for internal users
• Work with team leads to integrate legacy systems with existing test infrastructures
• Ability to work across many disparate software languages/technologies
• May use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software in the performance of assignments
• Ability to work independently under supervision of others
• Provide regular reporting on progress and status
• Responsible for completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements
• Review customer specifications and requirements, and under direction, develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
• Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
• May participate in preparation of less complex proposals
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings

• Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Related technical field
• Up to 2 years of experience with Python, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Powershell
• Up to 2 years of experience managing server infrastructure and configurations
• Candidates with more than 2 years of relevant experience may be considered for a Level II position.
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines and Groovy scripting
• Experience with virtual machines and containerized solutions, i.e. EXXi, Proxmox, Docker, etc.
• Git CLI knowledge and branching/merging basics
• Desired:
  Experience with Git Hub Actions and/or Git Lab CI/CD
• Desired:
  Experience with Atlassian software suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

The salary range for this position is $75,956.00/year-$98,743.00/year. This range reflects the good faith estimate of pay the employer is willing to offer at the time of posting. Several factors can influence the pay scale, including but not limited to:
Federal contract labor categories and contract wage rates, collective bargaining agreements, geographic location, business considerations, scope, and responsibilities of the position, local or other applicable market…