DevOps Team Lead

Description

AITAN builds a multi-drone control platform used in dynamic, high-risk environments.

Our systems do not live primarily in the cloud. They run on drones, NVIDIA Jetson devices, custom hardware, communication systems, and ground stations deployed in the field.

We are looking for someone to lead our DevOps team and own the infrastructure that connects development to real-world deployment: device provisioning, Linux images, CI/CD, fleet updates, networking, observability, security and hardware integration.

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys working across software, Linux, networking and physical systems.

The function is early-stage: much of the tooling does not exist yet, priorities move, and the systems are safety-critical and run on physical hardware, which means real on-call.

What You'll Do

• Own the path from commit to device: CI/CD for backend services, applications, firmware and edge software
• Own deployment and update systems for devices running at customer sites, in the field, and in disconnected or air-gapped environments
• Set the direction for provisioning, configuration, validation, recovery and fleet-management tooling
• Own monitoring, logging, alerting and diagnostics for safety-critical systems, and the on-call process around them
• Drive the security and resilience of Linux-based devices through secure updates, access controls, encryption, system hardening and operational safeguards
• Turn undocumented practice into standards, runbooks and repeatable process
• Work hands-on across Linux networking, VPNs, firewalls, containers, unreliable connectivity and remote access
• Automate how hardware platforms are flashed, configured, tested and integrated
• Plan how the platform scales as we grow into more devices, customers and sites, including the cloud and backend side
• Decide where internal automation and AI-assisted tooling reduces repetitive engineering and operational work
• Work directly with software, hardware, robotics and field teams to take systems from development to operational deployment

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering or a related role
• Proven experience leading and managing a DevOps team
• Strong Linux systems experience, including services, networking, storage, debugging, image creation and device provisioning
• Strong experience with containers, CI/CD, scripting, automation and configuration management
• Solid networking knowledge, including routing, firewalls, VPNs, DNS and troubleshooting connectivity issues
• Experience operating systems in on-premise, disconnected or air-gapped environments
• Comfortable working hands-on with physical devices, serial consoles, flashing tools, logs and low-level system troubleshooting
• A track record of owning a production system end to end, including being the person called when it broke
• Experience growing the engineers around you through mentoring, code review and technical standards
• Able to set technical direction and explain it to hardware, software and field teams

Nice to have

• Experience leading a team, or hiring and onboarding engineers
• Experience with NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi Compute Module or similar edge platforms
• Experience building custom Linux images, BSPs, kernels or device-specific system software
• Background in defense, robotics, drones, autonomous systems or industrial systems
• Familiarity with video pipelines using GStreamer, FFmpeg, RTSP or WebRTC
• Experience with secure boot, disk encryption, signed updates or device identity
• Experience building internal developer platforms, fleet-management tools or operational tooling
• Cloud and backend infrastructure experience, a growing part of the platform rather than where it lives today