DevOps Engineer

AeroVironment • Annapolis Junction, MD

12d

About The Position

The primary role of the DevOps 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.

Requirements

• 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 DevOps 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
• ITAR 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 AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’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. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

Nice To Haves

• eVo, CoDE, and UWE environments
• API 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 Percona
• HAProxy for load balancing and high availability
• MongoDB for NoSQL 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

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

Benefits

• AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level