DevOps Engineer

About the role

Swarm Aero is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain the infrastructure behind Legion, their command and control platform for coordinating UAV swarms. You will work alongside the DevSecOps lead to manage pipelines, environments, and deployments, ensuring the platform is reliable and scalable. This is a hands-on role focused on building systems to empower engineers and support mission-critical operations.

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 including monitoring, logging, alerting, and on-call tooling
• Package and deploy Legion to customer environments, including travel to customer and test sites
• Partner with the DevSecOps lead to bake security and compliance requirements into the platform
• Improve developer tooling and environments to help engineers ship faster

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Containers
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Linux
• Networking
• Python
• Go
• Bash

Nice to have

• Air-gapped environments
• Defense tech
• Real-time systems
• Mission-critical systems

Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years in DevOps, platform, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Active Secret clearance or higher
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• PTO
• Paid sick leave
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Catered lunch
• Paid parental leave

About the Company

Swarm Aero builds Group 5 autonomous aircraft and Legion, a command and control platform for coordinating UAV swarms. The company is backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue, with software currently running on real programs and hardware.