Staff DevOps Engineer (R6668)

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Shield AI
Full time
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11/13/2026
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USA (city not specified)

Responsibilities

Extend and mirror build and CI/CD capabilities into classified and air-gapped environments.
Design, provision, and maintain on-premises servers, storage, networking, and build clusters, including hardware selection, rack installation, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
Architect and support multi-classification deployments and controlled transfer of source code, dependencies, artifacts, and containers across network boundaries.
Partner with Security, IT, and ISSM/ISSO teams to meet RMF, DISA STIG, NIST 800-53, and NIST 800-171 accreditation and compliance requirements.
Own expertise in the software build and delivery process from developer workstations through CI and deployment.
Improve developer velocity by reducing build and test cycle times and removing pipeline bottlenecks.
Work with Software Engineers to design and implement solutions and establish integration best practices.
Integrate CI pipelines with HIL and simulation environments for automated validation.
Implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for build system performance across local, CI, and classified environments.
Use agentic solutions to identify build failures and route feedback to responsible Software Engineers.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 7+ years of industry experience, or a master’s degree/PhD with 5+ years of experience.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance.
Hands-on experience provisioning and administering physical servers and on-premises infrastructure.
Hands-on experience using AI tools, LLMs, coding assistants, or agentic workflows to improve engineering productivity and automate workflows.
Strong understanding of dependency management, artifact repositories, and package managers.
Proficiency with containers, orchestration, and cloud build clusters.
Strong Python and Bash scripting skills.
Hands-on experience integrating automated testing into CI pipelines.
Demonstrated success improving developer productivity at scale.
Primary-contributor experience delivering high-quality solutions through full development cycles in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab.
Cloud operations experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, Azure Government, or AWS GovCloud.
Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Background in robotics, autonomy, or aerospace systems.
Preferred experience operating CI/CD pipelines in classified or air-gapped environments.
Preferred experience with cross-domain solutions, cross-classification data transfer, RMF/ATO processes, STIG hardening, software supply-chain security, SBOMs, and artifact signing.

Benefits

Full-time regular employees receive bonus, benefits, and equity in addition to pay within the listed range.
Temporary employees receive a temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
The role is a full-time regular employee position, with offers contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.

Salary: $157k - $235k/yr

Shield AI

Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defe...

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