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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.\nOur 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.\nFollowing 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.\nACS is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional operations in Alexandria, Virginia; Mountain View, California; and Huntsville, Alabama. For more information, visit allencontrolsystems.com.\nPosition Overview:\nWe 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.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nArchitect, deploy, and manage production workloads on AWS, including core services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.\nDesign, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, networking (CNI), and cluster upgrades.\nAuthor and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.\nOwn core networking fundamentals across the environment: DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh.\nImplement least-privilege access controls and secrets management using tools such as Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.\nOwn production systems at scale, including reliability, performance, and incident response.\nPartner with engineering to build deployment pipelines and infrastructure that support rapid, secure delivery.\nWhat You’ll Need:\nExperience: 7+ years of professional DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale.\nAWS: Demonstrated hands-on expertise architecting, deploying, and managing production workloads on AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or equivalent core services).\nKubernetes: Production experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters, including workload scheduling, networking (CNI), and cluster upgrades.\nTerraform: Advanced experience authoring and maintaining Terraform modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code.\nDeep understanding of networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh concepts.\nDemonstrated experience implementing least-privilege access controls and secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent).\nYou’ll Stand Out:\nAWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty).\nExperience supporting DoD, defense, or other export-controlled/regulated environments (ITAR, CMMC, FedRAMP, or similar).\nFamiliarity with GCC High or other government cloud environments.\nKubernetes certification (CKA or CKAD).\nExperience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack).\nExperience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).\nWhat We Offer:\nCompetitive salary\nACS Equity Package\nHealth, Dental, Vision Insurance\nPaid Time Off\nAllen Control Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. 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