Senior DevOps Engineer

Position Reports To: Senior Manager, Software Engineer Supervises Others: No

At Trident Systems, we believe that strong engineering principles are fundamental to driving innovation and solving complex problems. We promote a culture characterized by rigorous engineering practices and a commitment to continuous improvement. This is achieved by leveraging our organization's collective expertise through collaborative development processes, which include thorough design and peer reviews. We can deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that meet our customers' evolving requirements by integrating our specialized knowledge in aerospace electronic systems with appropriately scaled development methodologies.

We are a mission partner supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, and Civil space customers. We develop complex, radiation effects mitigated, designs that balance competing requirements in modern space programs, delivering cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to achieve more in space., Trident is seeking a highly capable Senior DevOps Engineer to support the development, automation, and modernization of software and embedded systems environments across mission-critical aerospace and defense programs. This role will drive CI/CD, infrastructure automation, system reliability, and DevOps process improvement across engineering teams., * Lead and support DevOps initiatives across software, embedded, and infrastructure environments.

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting embedded and cloud-based development workflows.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and testing using Infrastructure as Code and scripting tools.
• Administer and optimize DevOps toolchains including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Support Linux and Windows development/test systems, Azure-based infrastructure, networking, authentication, patching, and monitoring solutions.
• Develop automated deployment strategies for virtualized, containerized, and embedded hardware environments.
• Collaborate with software, IT, security, and program teams to improve development, release, deployment, and compliance processes.
• Maintain engineering tool licensing, user access, backups, documentation, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Support modernization efforts including application refactoring, cloud migration activities, and adoption of modern DevOps practices.
• Participate in Agile development activities including sprint planning, reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree (OR 4+ years with a master's degree)
• Experience leading integration and production activities.
• Experience in supporting DevOps tools and associated pipeline environments such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Zephyr, and Artifactory.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration and Git.
• Familiarity with automation strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Java, Python, Bash, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Experience creating product verification and validation plans.
• Experience with Azure services (VMs, Blob Storage, SQL dbs etc.)
• Experience working with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.).
• Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations.
• Experience in system platform maintenance (STIGs, compile dependencies, etc.).
• Experience in database administration (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.).
• Azure Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional.
• Ability to obtain a Security Clearance

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to:

• Health benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic life with AD&D
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
• Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)

• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, maternity, and military)
• Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)