Systems Engineer, DevOps

About the Role

DRS RADA Technologies is hiring an on-site Systems Engineer – DevOps in Germantown, Maryland, to develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for their software-defined radar systems. This role involves working across virtualized environments and custom hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) infrastructure to support rapid, reliable software integration and testing.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (groovy) to support validation of radar software releases.
• Develop and maintain DevOps infrastructure in a local-hosted air-gapped environment, managing physical and virtual test assets for internal users.
• Work with team leads to integrate legacy systems with existing test infrastructures.
• Ability to work across many disparate software languages/technologies.
• May use computer-aided engineering or other design/analysis software.
• Ability to work independently under supervision.
• Provide regular reporting on progress and status.
• Responsible for completion of assigned tasks on time and meeting technical requirements.
• Review customer specifications and requirements, and under direction, develop designs.
• Specify and evaluate supplier components, subsystems, and services.
• Support program design to cost and design for manufacture requirements.
• Develop prototypes to retire key development risks.
• Communicate clearly (written and oral) with other company personnel and the customer.
• May participate in preparation of less complex proposals.
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization.
• Attend engineering, customer, or business meetings.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Python, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Powershell
• Jenkins pipelines and Groovy scripting
• Virtual machines and containerized solutions (e.g., EXXi, Proxmox, Docker)
• Git CLI knowledge and branching/merging basics
• Desired: Experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI/CD
• Desired: Experience with Atlassian software suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

Qualifications

• Novice technical expertise and application domain knowledge.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• Up to 2 years of experience with Python, C, C++, Rust, Bash, Powershell.
• Up to 2 years of experience managing server infrastructure and configurations.
• Candidates with more than 2 years of relevant experience may be considered for a Level II position.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• This position requires an active DOD security clearance or the ability to obtain such clearance.