Systems Engineer - DevOps

We’re looking for a DevOps engineer to develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for our software-defined radar systems. This role involves working across virtualized environments and custom hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) infrastructure to support rapid, reliable software integration and testing.

As a subsidiary of Leonardo DRS, DRS RADA Technologies delivers proprietary radar solutions and supports Legacy avionics systems for defense customers around the world. The company is a recognized pioneer in AESA tactical radar technology, supporting missions such as active military protection, counter-drone operations, critical infrastructure security, and border surveillance.

What you’ll do:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (groovy) to support validation of radar software releases
• Develop and maintain DevOps infrastructure in local-hosted air-gapped environment, managing physical and virtual test assets for internal users
• Work with team leads to integrate Legacy systems with existing test infrastructures
• Ability to work across many disparate software languages/technologies
• May use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software in the performance of assignments
• Ability to work independently under supervision of others
• Provide regular reporting on progress and status
• Responsible for completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements
• Review customer specifications and requirements, and under direction, develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
• Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
• Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
• May participate in preparation of less complex proposals
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
• Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings

• Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Related technical field
• Up to 2 years of experience with Python, C, C+, Rust, Bash, Powershell
• Up to 2 years of experience managing server infrastructure and configurations
• Candidates with more than 2 years of relevant experience may be considered for a Level II position.
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines and Groovy scripting
• Experience with virtual machines and containerized solutions, ie EXXi, Proxmox, Docker, etc.
• Git CLI knowledge and branching/merging basics
• Desired: Experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI/CD
• Desired: Experience with Atlassian software suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.

Schedule: A 9/80 schedule allows employees to work 80 hours over nine workdays in a two-week period, with every other Friday off.

Shift: First