Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
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About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, secure, and operate software delivery infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You will embed security controls and assurance into engineering workflows, support development across classified environments, automate security checks, and apply UK MOD Secure by Design principles.
Requirements
- BS or MS in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or related experience
- Experience delivering software or digital capabilities in UK defence or a highly regulated national-security environment
- Understanding of UK Ministry of Defence and NATO DevSecOps and Secure by Design approaches
- Experience applying MOD security policies, security assurance processes, and technical security requirements
- Experience developing and operating CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerisation, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with Git, GitLab, GitHub, or equivalent tooling
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure development and deployment infrastructure
- Develop and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines
- Embed security controls, testing, evidence, and assurance throughout the software development lifecycle
- Apply UK MOD Secure by Design principles and support cyber-security and technical-assurance responsibilities
- Establish development environments that meet defence security requirements
- Maintain cloud, on-premises, laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and operational environments
- Enable secure development and deployment across security classifications and segmented environments
- Implement automated static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, software composition analysis, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement
- Champion ownership of security, reliability, deployability, and operational performance