Sr. DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

The Senior Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, managing and optimizing current tools and providing automation and integration solutions. This role plays a critical part in improving software development efficiency, ensuring system reliability, and enhancing deployment workflows. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in DevOps methodologies, containerization, and monitoring solutions to support high-performance development teams.

Essential Functions
• Design, develop, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to automate software builds, testing, and deployment.
• Optimize and enhance existing deployment processes to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.
• Automate system provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
• Ensure architectural designs are well documented, consistent, flexible and scalable.
• Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery best practices are in place.
• Implement DevSecOps industry best practices.
• Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Troubleshoot system issues, identify performance bottlenecks, and improve overall system reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop and enforce incident response and disaster recovery procedures.
• Work closely with software engineers, security teams, and IT operations to streamline DevOps workflows.
• Provide technical assistance to staff to resolve issues in a timely manner
• Identify and evaluate new technologies to expand enterprise capability and efficiency.
• Perform other duties as required.

Standard Essential Functions

Regular and reliable attendance on a full-time basis

Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal and external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company's policies and practices.

Embodies AEVEX’s cultural values and aligns daily actions with department goals and company culture.

Qualifications And Competencies
• Strong expertise in continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitLab CI and Jenkins
• Ability to integrate both cloud-based or on-premises tooling and deployment infrastructure
• Experience automating and integrating pipelines from software repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Knowledge maintaining artifact management tools such as Artifactory.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Solid knowledge of monitoring, logging, and security best practices.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Familiarity with networking, load balancing, and CDN solutions.
• Knowledge of database management and performance tuning for SQL and NoSQL databases.

Education / Certifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) are a plus.

Experience
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps engineering role.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience GitLab and Atlassian Tools
• Experience with microservices architecture and container orchestration.
• Experience working in military contracting or DoD industry preferred.

Physical Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties the employee is:

Frequently required to sit, and to reach to use computers and other office equipment

Frequently required repetitive movements of wrists, hands, and/or fingers

Security Clearance
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Secret DoD clearance, U.S. Citizenship required.

About AEVEX Aerospace

AEVEX Aerospace, headquartered in Solana Beach, California, supports the U.S. national security mission and partner nation needs around the world by providing full-spectrum aviation, remote sensing, and analysis solutions. The company's capabilities include custom design and engineering; rapid prototyping; sensor integration and sustainment; aircraft modification and certification; flight test instrumentation and support; mission operations service; advanced intelligence data processing, exploitation, and dissemination solutions; and tailored hardware and software mission-system tools. AEVEX uses agile and customized approaches to rapidly define, develop, and deliver specialized solutions for airborne special mission needs for the U.S. Government, partner nations, and commercial businesses. AEVEX has major offices in California, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.

AEVEX provides a full suite of comprehensive benefits, including a 401(k)-retirement plan, comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life insurance group coverage with a portion of the premiums paid by the company, professional development funds, and an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) with counseling, legal help, child and elder care support, among other benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

AEVEX Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws.