Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems, autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK, Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul who can work in-office 3+ days per week.

What You’ll Do

• Packaging and automating our Platform, which includes Linux and Kubernetes software, to deploy on bare metal and the cloud, in both internet-connected and secure air gap environments
• Developing CI pipelines and test automation for the deployment of our Platform software
• Aiding developers with Linux and Kubernetes issues
• Aiding deployment engineers with Platform issues
• Managing and monitoring development CI resources that run the Platform using the test automation

You Should Have

• Bash/shell and python scripting experience
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes
• A propensity to automate everything you do
• Thorough experience with Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Linux based Containerization such as Docker
• Experience working both in the terminal and with user interfaces required for managing IT resources
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies, creating and managing VMs using industry standard tools such as VMWare, Proxmox, and KVM
• Experience managing backup resources, snapshots, and conducting failover events
• Experience using git version control and DevOps software such as Gitlab
• Ability and willingness to obtain a US Security Clearance
• Experience in hardening infrastructure resources such as STIGing and firewall work
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, and AWS
• Networking expertise
• Experience packaging internal and internet-based software to work in air gap environments

Bonus

• Experience developing and deploying Kubernetes Helm charts

Qualifications

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.