Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Position

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

We’re hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Torrance, California. As drones transform the character of warfare, Neros is delivering the systems the West needs to compete on the modern battlefield and deter the adversaries of democracy. We’re looking for engineers, operators, and builders who want to move fast, take on extreme ownership, and get capability into the hands of warfighters in months, not years.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate robust, reliable, and auditable platforms leveraging deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and back-end systems.
• Make key architectural decisions, own delivery, and hold the bar for performance, security, and reliability.
• Leverage experience with Docker containerization and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration).
• Utilize hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).
• Administer and operate CI/CD pipelines and runners in secure environments (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Deep Linux system administration experience (hardening, troubleshooting, performance tuning, configuration management).
• Design and maintain cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure architectures (dev/staging/prod) with repeatability and reliability.
• Familiarity with network architecture concepts (VPNs, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, segmentation).
• Experience with secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and PKI.
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability pipelines for infra + application health.

Requirements

• 5+ years of DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services (deployment, networking, resource management, scaling).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Bicep).
• Hands-on administration and operation of CI/CD pipelines and runners in secure environments (e.g., GitLab CI).
• Deep Linux system administration experience (hardening, troubleshooting, performance tuning, configuration management).
• Experience designing and maintaining cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure architectures (dev/staging/prod) with repeatability and reliability.
• Familiarity with network architecture concepts (VPNs, firewalls, DNS, load balancing, segmentation).
• Experience with secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and PKI.
• Ability to design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability pipelines for infra + application health.

Nice to Have

• Security & compliance experience (FIPS 140-2/140-3; implementing controls aligned with NIST SP 800-171 / 800-172 / 800-53).
• Familiarity administering IAM solutions (Okta; Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD) for SSO/MFA and identity governance.
• Zero-trust security architecture; STIG hardening / RMF processes.
• Embedded Linux, and embedded system interfacing; C/C++ familiarity.
• Strong scripting for automation (Bash; Python).

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $165,000 - $231,000 USD.
• Equity grants: Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
• Work environment: Join a fast-paced, hands-on team in a cutting-edge defense technology company.

About the Company

Neros is a defense technology company dedicated to rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. We design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems that are tested in combat, iterated at startup speed, and built at massive scale. Our team culture is fast, hands-on, and obsessed with closing the gap between design and deployment.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.