Job Description
Systems Engineer - DevOps
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Location:
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Germantown, MD, US, 20876
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Job ID: 115340
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The salary range for this position is $75,956.00/year-$98,743.00/year.
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DRS RADA Technologies, a subsidiary of Leonardo DRS, is focused on proprietary radar solutions and legacy avionics systems supporting the defense industry globally. The company is a global pioneer of AESA tactical radars for active military protection, counter-drone applications, critical infrastructure protection, and border surveillance.
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Business Unit: DRS RADA Technologies
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Location: Germantown, MD
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Relocation: Not Available
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Schedule: A 9/80 schedule allows employees to work 80 hours over nine workdays in a two-week period, with every other Friday off.
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Shift: First
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Job Summary
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DRS RADA Technologies is hiring an on-site Systems Engineer – DevOps in Germantown, Maryland.
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We’re looking for a DevOps engineer to develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for our software-defined radar systems. This role involves working across virtualized environments and custom hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) infrastructure to support rapid, reliable software integration and testing.
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As a subsidiary of Leonardo DRS, DRS RADA Technologies delivers proprietary radar solutions and supports legacy avionics systems for defense customers around the world. The company is a recognized pioneer in AESA tactical radar technology, supporting missions such as active military protection, counter-drone operations, critical infrastructure security, and border surveillance.
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What you'll do:
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- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (groovy) to support validation of radar software releases
- Develop and maintain DevOps infrastructure in local-hosted air-gapped environment, managing physical and virtual test assets for internal users
- Work with team leads to integrate legacy systems with existing test infrastructures
- Ability to work across many disparate software languages/technologies
- May use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software in the performance of assignments
- Ability to work independently under supervision of others
- Provide regular reporting on progress and status
- Responsible for completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements
- Review customer specifications and requirements, and under direction, develop designs to best support them, including cost as a key design variable
- Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems and services
- Support the program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements
- Develop prototypes to retire key development risks as directed
- Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer as required
- May participate in preparation of less complex proposals
- Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization
- Attend appropriate engineering, customer or business meetings
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What you bring:
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- Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Related technical field
- Up to 2 years of experience with Python, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Powershell
- Up to 2 years of experience managing server infrastructure and configurations
- Candidates with more than 2 years of relevant experience may be considered for a Level II position.
- Experience with Jenkins pipelines and Groovy scripting
- Experience with virtual machines and containerized solutions, i.e. EXXi, Proxmox, Docker, etc.
- Git CLI knowledge and branching/merging basics
- Desired: Experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI/CD
- Desired: Experience with Atlassian software suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
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U.S. Citizenship required. This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance within a reasonable time after commencement of employment.
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