DevOps Engineer
Allen Control Systems · Austin, TX
About this role
## Company Overview ACS (Allen Control Systems) is a defense technology company building precision robotic systems for the United States and its allies. Founded by two former U.S. Navy electrical engineers, ACS combines AI, computer vision, precision motion, and advanced hardware to solve complex defense challenges across land, air, and maritime environments. Our flagship product, **Bullfrog**, is an autonomous precision weapon system that transforms existing weapons into highly accurate counter-drone systems—providing warfighters a scalable, cost-effective response to one of the fastest-growing threats on the modern battlefield. Bullfrog is deployed with U.S. forces, and ACS works with organizations throughout the U.S. military and national security community. ACS is headquartered in **Austin, Texas**, with additional operations in **Alexandria, Virginia; Mountain View, California; and Huntsville, Alabama**. --- ## Position Overview (DevOps Engineer) ACS is seeking an experienced **DevOps Engineer** to own the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production systems that support a fast-moving defense engineering organization. You will be responsible for the architecture and reliability of our **AWS environment and Kubernetes clusters**, the **infrastructure-as-code** that provisions them, and the **access controls and secrets management** that keep them secure. You’ll work closely with engineering to build infrastructure that scales with the company while meeting the demands of a security-sensitive, compliance-driven environment. --- ## What You’ll Do - Architect, deploy, and manage production workloads on **AWS** (including **VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda**) - Design, deploy, and operate **Kubernetes clusters** (workload scheduling, networking/CNI, and cluster upgrades) - Author and maintain **Terraform modules** for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code - Own core networking fundamentals: **DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, and service mesh** - Implement **least-privilege** access controls and secrets management using **Vault** or **AWS Secrets Manager** - Own production systems at scale, including **reliability, performance, and incident response** - Partner with engineering to build **deployment pipelines** and infrastructure that support rapid, secure delivery --- ## What You’ll Need - **7+ years** of professional DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering experience, including ownership of production systems at scale - **AWS** hands-on expertise architecting, deploying, and managing production workloads (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, or equivalent) - **Kubernetes** production experience designing, deploying, and operating clusters (scheduling, networking/CNI, upgrades) - **Terraform** advanced experience authoring and maintaining modules for multi-environment infrastructure-as-code - Deep understanding of networking fundamentals: **DNS, TLS/PKI, routing, load balancing, service mesh** - Demonstrated experience implementing **least-privilege access controls** and **secrets management** (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or equivalent) --- ## You’ll Stand Out - **AWS certifications** (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Security Specialty) - Experience supporting **DoD, defense, or other export-controlled/regulated environments** (ITAR, CMMC, FedRAMP, or similar) - Familiarity with **GCC High** or other government cloud environments - **Kubernetes certification** (CKA or CKAD) - Experience
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