DevOps Engineer

The primary role of the DevOps Engineer is to play a critical part in sustaining and enhancing reporting tools that support mission success. Your efforts will include expanding collaboration platforms, installing and configuring complex software, managing servers and networks, monitoring system performance, and troubleshooting issues to keep operations running smoothly.

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

• Monitor and maintain systems to meet stringent security and performance standards

• Troubleshoot and resolve outages, ensuring mission continuity

• 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 with: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.

• An active TS/SCI with polygraph

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies:

• 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)

• Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)

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.

Based in California, AeroVironment (AVAV) is a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems. Founded in 1971 by celebrated physicist and engineer, Dr. Paul MacCready, we’ve been at the leading edge of technical innovation for more than 45 years. Be a part of the team that developed the world’s most widely used military drones and created the first submarine-launched reconnaissance drone, and has seven innovative vehicles that are part of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection in Washington, DC.

Join us today in developing the next generation of small UAS and tactical missile systems that will deliver more actionable intelligence to our customers so they can proceed with certainty - and succeed.

What We Do

Building on a history of technological innovation, AeroVironment designs, develops, produces, and supports an advanced portfolio of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and tactical missile systems. Agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense and allied military services use the company’s hand-launched UAS to provide situational awareness to tactical operating units through real-time, airborne reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition., We don’t just build defense technology-we redefine what’s possible. As the premier autonomous systems company in the U.S., AV delivers breakthrough capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. From AI-powered drones and loitering munitions to integrated autonomy and space resilience, our technologies shape the future of warfare and protect those who serve.

Founded by legendary innovator Dr. Paul MacCready, AV has spent over 50 years pushing the boundaries of what unmanned systems can do. Our heritage includes seven platforms in the Smithsonian-but we’re not building history, we’re building what’s next.

If you’re ready to build technology that matters-with speed, scale, and purpose-there’s no better place to do it than AV.

Careers at AeroVironment (https://www.avinc.com/careers/our-team)