DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

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 continuityli>

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) is required or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Expertise with Linux administration, AWS, cloud and virtualization, networking, firewalls, load balancers, Terraform scripting, VM provisioning, container technologies (Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm), public key infrastructure, and Git.
• 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
• 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.
• Required to sit and stand for long periods; use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard.

Salary Range

$150,000 - $220,000

Clearance Level

Top Secret with Poly

Benefits

AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule, and a paid holiday shutdown. For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit http://www.avinc.com/myavbenefits.

We also encourage you to review our company website at http://www.avinc.com to learn more about us.

EEO Statement

AeroVironment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic data, sexual orientation, gender identity or other legally protected status.

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