DevOps Engineer

Allen Control Systems•Austin, TX

About The Position

Allen Control Systems (ACS) is a defense technology company developing precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional operations in Alexandria, Virginia; Mountain View, California; and Huntsville, Alabama. ACS is expanding manufacturing, accelerating deployments of its Bullfrog autonomous precision weapon system, and developing next-generation autonomous battlefield systems. ACS is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production systems supporting its defense engineering organization. The role is responsible for the architecture and reliability of AWS environments and Kubernetes clusters, the infrastructure-as-code used to provision them, and secure access controls and secrets management. The engineer will work closely with engineering to build scalable infrastructure for a security-sensitive, compliance-driven environment, balancing delivery speed with security and reliability.

Requirements

At least 7 years of professional DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale.
Hands-on expertise architecting, deploying, and managing production workloads on AWS, including core services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda, or equivalent services.
Production experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, CNI networking, and cluster upgrades.
Advanced experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.
Deep understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh concepts.
Demonstrated experience implementing least-privilege access controls and secrets management with Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or an equivalent.

Nice To Haves

AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty.
Experience supporting DoD, defense, or other export-controlled or regulated environments, such as ITAR, CMMC, or FedRAMP.
Familiarity with GCC High or other government cloud environments.
Kubernetes certification such as CKA or CKAD.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.
Experience with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and manage production workloads on AWS, including VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, CNI networking, and cluster upgrades.
Author and maintain Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.
Own core networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh.
Implement least-privilege access controls and secrets management using tools such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
Own production systems at scale, including reliability, performance, and incident response.
Partner with engineering to build deployment pipelines and infrastructure that support rapid, secure delivery.