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Helsing develops AI-enabled capabilities to protect and defend democracies, building Altra (an AI-powered drone software platform) and HX-2 (an autonomous drone). The Platform Engineering team architects, builds, and maintains a developer-focused platform powering all product and project teams across Helsing US operations.
In this role, you will design and operate cloud infrastructure, deploy and maintain shared services like GitLab, Artifactory, and CI/CD pipelines, and build internal tooling that accelerates software delivery. You'll enable product teams with isolated environments by provisioning cloud accounts, standing up EKS clusters, databases, and automation to make infrastructure self-service and efficient.
Security is foundational: the platform must meet CMMC Level 2 compliance requirements, and you will help ensure infrastructure and software supply chain satisfy ATO and NIST security controls.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure across multi-account AWS environments using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise
- Provisioning and managing EKS clusters, networking, IAM, and other AWS primitives for product and project teams
- Standing up and operating shared services (GitLab, Artifactory, CI/CD pipelines) and developer tooling
- Building automation and self-service tooling that enables product teams to move quickly within secure guardrails
- Designing and deploying agentic AI workflows to streamline developer activities, infrastructure operations, and platform compliance
- Hosting and maintaining a mix of open-source, COTS, and internally developed services
This is an opportunity to work on mission-critical infrastructure at a growing defense-tech company with ambitious, mission-driven professionals.
