DevOps Engineer

Worker Type Regular Job  Description Summary The  primary role of the Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 environmentsAPI 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 PerconaHAProxy for load balancing and high availability

MongoDB for No

SQL 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 Top Secret with PolyITAR 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 Aero Vironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Aero Vironment’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.…