DevOps Engineer

Swarm Aero builds autonomous aircraft and Legion, a command-and-control platform for coordinating UAV swarms. The DevOps Engineer will build and operate the infrastructure behind Legion, owning CI/CD pipelines, deployment environments, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes services, observability, customer deployments, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that take Legion from commit to production across multiple environments
• Manage infrastructure as code for cloud and on-prem deployments
• Run and scale containerized services on Kubernetes
• Build out observability: monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling
• Package and deploy Legion to customer environments, including travel to customer and test sites when deployments require it
• Partner with our DevSecOps lead to bake security and compliance requirements into the platform from the start
• Help engineers across Legion ship faster by improving developer tooling and environments

Requirements:

• 4 to 8 years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines in a production environment
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash
• must be able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance
• applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• Active Secret clearance or higher strongly preferred
• Experience deploying to air-gapped, disconnected, or edge environments
• Background in defense tech, government programs, or regulated environments
• Experience supporting real-time or mission-critical systems