Senior DevOps Engineer

The Real-time Architectures, Integration, and Demonstration (RAID) Group focuses on transition of algorithms from concept to real-time software, providing open architecture expertise, and facilitating integration of capabilities for experimentation, test, and deployment. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will establish and maintain a continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure for real-time embedded systems software. You will work with software development teams to implement build automation, testing frameworks, containerization, and deployment pipelines for complex embedded and distributed systems. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining development environments, build systems, and tooling that enable rapid prototyping and transition of algorithms from research to real-time implementation.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-language, multi-platform software projects; Establish and maintain containerized development and deployment environments (Docker, Kubernetes); Implement automated build systems for C/C++ and Python codebases using CMake, Conan, and similar tools; Create and maintain automated testing frameworks (unit tests, integration tests, system tests); Implement security scanning and vulnerability assessment tools in CI/CD pipelines; Manage version control workflows and branching strategies for collaborative development; Configure and maintain GitLab runners, build agents, and testing infrastructure across multiple sites; Develop scripts and tools to automate software deployment to embedded and distributed systems; Monitor build health, test coverage, code quality metrics, and system performance; Support developers across multiple teams in resolving build, dependency, and environment issues; Document DevOps processes, tools, best practices, and technical documentation; Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, security, IT, and integration teams; Support approximately 20% travel for system integration events and customer demonstrations

Requirements

Active Secret security clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is a government requirement; BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with relevant experience depending on degree (BS +5 years, MS +3 years, PhD +1 year); Strong proficiency with Linux system administration and embedded Linux environments; Experience with CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar); Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Python); Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes); Experience with build systems for C/C++ projects (CMake, Make, or similar); Experience with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows

Nice to have

Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred); DevOps or software infrastructure engineering experience; Experience with real-time embedded systems software development; Experience with package management systems (Conan, vcpkg, Artifactory); Experience with static analysis tools, code coverage tools, and performance profiling; Experience with security scanning and vulnerability assessment tools (SonarQube, Trivy, etc.)