Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure
Core
Lead the modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of platforms powering mission systems and customer deployments across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments.
Role type
Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure
Builds
Cloud and on-prem deployment platforms for autonomous systems, AI-powered mission planning, and real-time global situational awareness.
Domain
Defense, aerospace, geospatial intelligence, and mission-critical operational systems.
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes architecture, cloud infrastructure design, CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, distributed systems design, operational resiliency, release engineering, team leadership, platform strategy.
Preferred skills
Defense/aerospace domain experience, sovereign cloud operations, AIOps implementation, Zero Trust/DevSecOps practices, geospatial intelligence systems.
Technologies
Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, AWS, Azure, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD.
Responsibilities
Define long-term platform engineering strategy, balance centralized shared services with embedded domain support, modernize fragmented DevOps ecosystems, ensure operational reliability across hybrid environments.
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on architectural credibility.