DevOps Engineer
Position Responsibilities
- Deploy and manage applications across distributed environments.
- Install, configure, and optimize complex software solutions.
- Administer servers, networks, and technology tools to ensure reliability.
- Maintain and monitor systems to meet stringent security and performance standards.
- Resolve outages to ensure mission continuity.
Experience
- 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 & Desired Competencies
- 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.
- 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.
Physical Demands
- Ability to work in an office environment (Constant).
- Sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent).
Pay & Benefits
Salary Range: $150,000 - $220,000
The AV pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Determination of official compensation or salary relies on several factors including, but not limited to, level of position, job responsibilities, geographic location, scope of relevant work experience, educational background, certifications, contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements, alignment with local internal equity as well as alignment with market data.
ITAR Clearance Level: Top Secret with Poly
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.
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. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit: http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits. We also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.
Principals only need apply. NO agencies please.