# Staff DevOps Engineer (R6668)

Job Description: Shield AI is building autonomous aircraft that redefine aviation. The Foundation Engineering team builds the pipelines, tools, and systems that make fast, reliable delivery of complex aircraft software possible. As a DevOps Build Engineer, you will extend our build and delivery infrastructure for our autonomous aircraft (XBAT/VBAT/BlueSky) into classified environments. You will stand up and maintain physical build infrastructure and support software deployments across multiple classification levels. You will also apply DevOps best practices to improve Developer Experience (DevEx) and speed up our software engineers' development cycles. What you'll do: Extend and mirror build and CI/CD capabilities into classified and air-gapped environments, keeping them aligned with unclassified development workflows. Design, stand up, and maintain on-premises physical build infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, and build clusters), including hardware selection, rack/install, provisioning, and lifecycle management. Architect and support multi-classification deployments, including controlled transfer of source, dependencies, artifacts, and containers across network boundari

- **Id**: 4228216
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/shield-ai-staff-devops-engineer-r6668>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T06:54:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:41:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3906
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Military Drones, Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 50
- **Name**: Shield AI
- **Domain**: shield.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/shield-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 73
- **Open postings**: 112
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.866
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 62
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 157000
- **Max**: 235000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 235000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **JFrog Artifactory** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **NIST 800-53** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T08:41:49Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 62
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:57:25Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 235000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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