DevOps Engineer (R6610)

f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Shield AI is building autonomous aircraft that redefine aviation. The Foundation Engineering team builds the pipelines, tools, and systems that enable fast, reliable delivery of complex aircraft software. As a DevOps Build Engineer, you will extend build and delivery infrastructure for autonomous aircraft into classified environments, establish and maintain physical build infrastructure, support software deployments across multiple classification levels, and apply DevOps practices to improve developer experience and accelerate development cycles.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience, or a master’s/Ph.D. with 5+ years.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
Hands-on experience provisioning and administering physical servers and on-premises infrastructure.
Understanding of and hands-on experience using AI tools, such as LLMs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows, to improve engineering productivity and automate workflows.
Strong understanding of dependency management, artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Nexus, and package managers such as Conan, CPM, or pip.
Proficiency with containers and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud build clusters.
Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.
Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI pipelines.
Demonstrated success improving developer productivity at scale.
Demonstrated excellence as a primary project contributor, including ability to work through development cycles, overcome obstacles, and deliver high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab.
Cloud operations experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, including government cloud regions such as Azure Government or AWS GovCloud.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible and monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus.
Background in robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems.

Nice To Haves

Ability to obtain a S//SAR-level security clearance.
Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines in classified or air-gapped environments.
Experience with cross-domain solutions (CDS) and data transfer processes between networks of different classification levels.
Familiarity with RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, and secure software supply chain practices such as SBOMs and artifact signing.

Responsibilities

Extend and mirror build and CI/CD capabilities into classified and air-gapped environments while keeping them aligned with unclassified development workflows.
Design, stand up, and maintain on-premises physical build infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, and build clusters; select, install, provision, and manage hardware through its lifecycle.
Architect and support deployments across multiple classification levels, including controlled transfer of source, dependencies, artifacts, and containers across network boundaries.
Work with Security, IT, and ISSM/ISSO teams to meet accreditation and compliance requirements, including RMF, DISA STIGs, and NIST 800-53/800-171.
Develop expertise in and support the software build and delivery process, from developer workstations through CI and deployment.
Improve developer velocity by reducing build and test cycle times and removing pipeline bottlenecks.
Work with Software Engineers to understand requirements, propose designs, and implement solutions.
Partner with developers to resolve build and test failures and establish integration best practices.
Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation.
Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for build system performance across local development, CI, and classified environments.
Use agentic solutions to identify build failure root causes and route relevant feedback to the responsible Software Engineer.