DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer

Final date to receive applications: 27 March 2026

Department: Product Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Headquarters

Aireon deployed the world’s first global space-based air traffic surveillance system, providing real‑time aircraft monitoring capabilities around the world, including over the poles, over the oceans and in remote areas.

Aireon data enables safer, more efficient and more environmentally friendly aviation travel, resulting in significant CO2 emission reductions. More than 20 Air Navigation Service Providers representing more than 40 countries – including NAV CANADA, NATS (UK), Air Traffic and Navigation Services (South Africa), Airports Authority of India (AAI), and ASECNA (Africa) – rely on Aireon data to navigate aircraft in their airspaces.

We are committed to offering an employment experience and benefits package that enables you and your family to grow with us and to share in our success.

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of revolutionizing our core Aireon service components. Dive into the requirements, design, and implementation of cutting‑edge infrastructure. Be a key player in transforming our environment into a secure, efficient, scalable, and automated powerhouse.

Aireon is seeking someone to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will deploy, configure, maintain, and secure network and infrastructure resources in both cloud and on‑prem environments. You will collaborate across the company with Software Developers, Operations, Architecture, Project Management, and Sales. You will work closely with the Operations team to investigate production incidents. You will sharpen your skills in Dev Ops and cloud technologies while managing critical systems and contributing to safer air travel.

Aireon is certified to provide surveillance as a service to global customers in a safety‑critical industry. This role is essential to the delivery of this service and will be required to reach and maintain an acceptable standard of competency. Aireon will provide initial and ongoing training to support competency standards. This is measured through assessment that is renewable annually.

• Administer multiple Kubernetes clusters and other infrastructure software components, performing install, user management, troubleshooting, upgrades, etc.
• Support software developers to create development environments, set up cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, and perform integration during product integration, deployments, and system testing.
• Support production environments and products and assist customer onboarding and management. Some after‑hours support may be required which may include on‑call support.
• Support a unified set of practices and tools, ensuring infrastructure changes are safe, consistent, and reusable.
• Improve automation and resolve operational issues as they arise.
• Manage infrastructure performance improvements.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to make sound technical decisions in ambiguous situations and communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams.
• Two or more years of experience deploying, maintaining, and optimizing Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred).
• Two or more years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), e.g. Terraform.
• Understand the importance of security while implementing infrastructure.
• Knowledge of deploying highly scalable, mission‑critical, zero‑downtime solutions.
• Experience with networking and security configurations for cloud and hybrid on‑prem systems.
• Proficiency in at least one high‑level scripting language (Power Shell, Python, Bash, etc.).
• Hands‑on experience with application performance monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Working experience in troubleshooting cloud services (preferably Azure).
• Excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with deploying cloud based security key management solutions across integrated on‑prem based…