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Salary: USD 125,000 - 160,000 / annual
Mach Industries, founded in 2023, is a rapidly growing defense technology company developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. With ~350 employees, the company operates with startup agility while focusing on scalable, decentralized defense systems for the U.S. and its allies.
You will be Mach's first DevOps Engineer, responsible for building and owning the infrastructure layer that powers the entire organization. This is a foundational hire with wide technical latitude to shape DevOps culture, tooling, and long-term reliability approaches.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain GitHub CI/CD pipelines to accelerate developer velocity and minimize deployment risk
- Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and security
- Monitor and improve system observability through logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call response
- Collaborate with software and hardware teams to support test infrastructure, simulation environments, and production deployments
- Lead implementation of infrastructure security and cost optimization best practices
- Establish incident response protocols and support root cause analysis
- Help shape DevOps processes, tools, and team culture as the company scales
This role requires extended hours and weekend availability as needed. The position requires ITAR compliance: applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Compensation includes competitive base salary, performance-based bonuses tied to individual and company performance, equity participation, comprehensive benefits (healthcare, dental, vision, retirement, PTO), and professional development funding.
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles
- Proficiency with AWS cloud platforms
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Strong scripting background (Python, Bash)
- Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or ECS)
- Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
- Excellent debugging and incident management skills
- Ability to own large initiatives end-to-end with minimal oversight
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting production systems in defense, robotics, or hardware-adjacent environments
- Knowledge of airgapped or secure deployment environments
- Familiarity with compliance standards (FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC)
- Exposure to embedded systems build pipelines or cross-compilation toolchains
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)
