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Fortaegis Secure Compute delivers the security, speed and scale that legacy security architectures cannot, as compute becomes increasingly distributed and autonomous. Its unified architecture spans silicon to software, combining hardware-rooted trust, cryptography and software orchestration to secure computing environments at scale.\nFortaegis has expanded across Europe, the United States and Asia and is working with more than 25 enterprises and governments across AI infrastructure, defense, advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, critical infrastructure and automotive. Following its oversubscribed $50 million Series A (Financial Times coverage), Fortaegis is advancing the commercial deployment of its Secure Compute architecture across form factors and end markets while expanding its product roadmap and growing its engineering and commercial capacity.\nAs a DevOps Engineer the goal is to build and maintain the infrastructure that enables reliable integration, deployment, and testing of embedded systems on real hardware.\nYou will work at the intersection of embedded software, Linux, networking, CI/CD, and hardware testing. Your main responsibility is to ensure that our physical test environments are stable, reproducible, and ready for development and QA.\nThis role goes beyond conventional CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. You will work directly with hardware, configure networks, deploy software and firmware to target devices, troubleshoot system-level issues, and automate test infrastructure.\nKey Contributions\nMaintain reliable physical test environments for embedded product development and system testing.\n\nDeploy and troubleshoot firmware, FPGA bitstreams, and software on target hardware.\n\nManage GitLab infrastructure and workflows supporting development and automated testing.\n\nAutomate hardware setup, deployment, and test environment management.\n\nImprove the reproducibility, availability, and maintainability of our test infrastructure.\n\nResponsibilities\nTest Infrastructure and Embedded Systems Integration\nAssemble, configure, and maintain physical test setups, including embedded boards, power supplies, network equipment, cabling, and supporting devices.\n\nDeploy firmware, FPGA bitstreams, and software to target hardware using appropriate methods, such as JTAG, UART bootloaders, and SD-card images.\n\nConfigure and troubleshoot Linux-based embedded systems, including boot processes, services, and network interfaces.\n\nPerform initial setup and integration of new hardware revisions in collaboration with hardware and software engineers.\n\nPrepare and maintain known-good system images and deployment procedures for development and QA.\n\nInvestigate integration problems spanning hardware, firmware, operating systems, applications, and network configuration.\n\nLinux and Networking\nAdminister Linux systems used for development, build, deployment, and hardware testing.\n\nConfigure and troubleshoot networking involving Ethernet interfaces, switches, routers, DHCP, IP addressing, routing tables, and network services.\n\nMaintain reliable connectivity between test devices, management systems, and supporting infrastructure.\n\nDiagnose problems involving Linux services, system configuration, network connectivity, and hardware communication.\n\nGit and GitLab\nAdminister and maintain GitLab projects, repositories, permissions, merge request workflows, runners, and related infrastructure.\n\nApply sound Git practices, including branching, merging, rebasing, reverting, and resolving integration conflicts.\n\nDevelop scripts and tools to automate repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks using Python, Bash, or similar languages.\n\nSupport CI/CD pipelines by ensuring that hardware test environments and deployment infrastructure integrate reliably with automated builds and tests.\n\nDocument infrastructure configuration, deployment procedures, troubleshooting steps, and operational knowledge.\n\nHardware Test Automation\nMaintain test rigs and supporting equipment, including programmable power supplies, serial consoles, and remotely controlled devices.\n\nHelp automate hardware test environments, device reset, power cycling, and deployment workflows.\n\nCollaborate with QA and development engineers to provide reliable environments for automated system testing.\n\nInvestigate opportunities to improve hardware test automation and infrastructure observability.\n\nRequired Skills\nStrong Git knowledge: Comfortable with branches, commits, merge requests, merging, rebasing, reverting, conflict resolution, and understanding the consequences of Git operations.\n\nStrong GitLab knowledge: Experience working with repositories, merge request workflows, permissions, CI/CD pipelines, and GitLab runners.\n\nStrong Linux skills: Confident administering and troubleshooting Linux systems, services, networking, and system configuration.\n\nStrong networking fundamentals: Able to configure and troubleshoot Ethernet networks, IP addressing, routing, DHCP, switches, and routers.\n\nPractical scripting skills: Able to automate tasks using Python, Bash, or similar tools.\n\nSystematic troubleshooting: Able to investigate problems across multiple components and identify root causes rather than relying on workarounds.\n\nHands-on mindset: Comfortable assembling and maintaining physical test environments, working with hardware, and diagnosing issues in a lab.\n\nClear communication and documentation: Able to explain technical issues and create procedures that others can follow.\n\nCollaborative approach: Comfortable working with embedded software, FPGA, hardware, build, and QA engineers.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience with embedded Linux systems, including bootloaders, kernels, device trees, and system images.\n\nExperience deploying embedded software and firmware using JTAG, USB-to-UART adapters, serial bootloaders, or SD-card images.\n\nExperience with FPGA development and deployment workflows, such as Vivado or Vitis.\n\nExperience with Labgrid or LAVA, especially managing hardware resources, test environments, and automated deployment.\n\nExperience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, automated hardware testing, or test lab infrastructure.\n\nExperience with pytest or other test automation frameworks.\n\nExperience with 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You are comfortable moving between a terminal, a GitLab project, a network switch, and a physical test bench.\nYou do not need to be an FPGA designer or an expert in every embedded technology. 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