DevOps Engineer

Company Overview
ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers with deep experience in robotics and software ACS brings together AI computer vision precision motion and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land air and maritime environments.

Our flagship product Bullfrog is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems giving warfighters a scalable cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S. military and national security community.

Following a $200 million Series B at a $2.2 billion valuation ACS is rapidly expanding manufacturing accelerating Bullfrog deployments and developing the next generation of autonomous battlefield systems. This is an opportunity to join a proven fast-moving team and help scale technology with direct real-world impact on national security.

ACS is headquartered in Austin Texas with additional operations in Alexandria Virginia; Mountain View California; and Huntsville Alabama. For more information visit .

Position Overview:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure deployment pipelines and production systems that support a fast-moving defense engineering organization. This engineer will be responsible for the architecture and reliability of our AWS environment and Kubernetes clusters the infrastructure-as-code that provisions them and the access controls and secrets management that keep them secure. Working closely with engineering this individual will build infrastructure that scales with the company while meeting the demands of a security-sensitive compliance-driven environment. The ideal candidate is comfortable owning production systems end to end thinks in infrastructure-as-code and has the judgment to balance velocity with security and reliability.

What Youll Do:

Architect deploy and manage production workloads on AWS including core services such as VPC IAM EC2 S3 RDS and Lambda.

Design deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters including workload scheduling networking (CNI) and cluster upgrades.

Author and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.

Own core networking fundamentals across the environment: DNS TLS/PKI routing load balancing and service mesh.

Implement least-privilege access controls and secrets management using tools such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.

Own production systems at scale including reliability performance and incident response.

Partner with engineering to build deployment pipelines and infrastructure that support rapid secure delivery.

What Youll Need:

Experience: 7 years of professional DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering experience including ownership of production systems at scale.

AWS: Demonstrated hands-on expertise architecting deploying and managing production workloads on AWS (VPC IAM EC2 S3 RDS Lambda or equivalent core services).

Kubernetes: Production experience designing deploying and operating Kubernetes clusters including workload scheduling networking (CNI) and cluster upgrades.

Terraform: Advanced experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.

Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS TLS/PKI routing load balancing and service mesh concepts.

Demonstrated experience implementing least-privilege access controls and secrets management (Vault AWS Secrets Manager or equivalent).

Youll Stand Out:

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional or Security Specialty).

Experience supporting DoD defense or other export-controlled/regulated environments (ITAR CMMC FedRAMP or similar).

Familiarity with GCC High or other government cloud environments.

Kubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD).

Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible Puppet Chef SaltStack).

Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana ELK).

What We Offer:

Competitive salary

ACS Equity Package

Health Dental Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Allen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Allen Control Systems prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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