• Build, deploy safely and incrementally, and operate critical production systems with focus on scalability, reliability, observability, performance and security. • Build automation to remove toil and proactively monitor, respond to, and enhance alerts with automated handling. • Create and maintain incident response runbooks, triage platform and infrastructural issues, and write postmortem documents to prevent recurring incidents. • Plan and communicate maintenance windows on production systems while engaging with 3rd party vendor support as needed. • Work with Arista's product development teams to identify infrastructural bottlenecks and design solutions to enhance developer experience and workflow efficiency. • Survey and adopt best practices around infrastructure and platform design to maintain secure, scalable and fault-tolerant systems, including studying OSS system implementations for better triage and resolution.

• Collaborate directly with customers, providing strategic guidance and technical expertise. • Own the vision for AI operations implementation, building end-to-end workflows and taking them to production. • Translate complex business challenges into actionable technical plans. • Rapidly prototype AI solutions to demonstrate possibilities to clients. • Engineer production-grade AI solutions with deep knowledge of AI tooling, architecture, and deployment. • Manage stakeholder alignment, proactively escalating issues and requesting support when necessary. • Design and build LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, agentic systems, and custom data pipelines.

• Design, build, and maintain Terraform Infrastructure as Code for Azure payment platform environments (dev, UAT, prod) using reusable modules and policy-as-code guardrails • Own end-to-end M365 Copilot Studio agent lifecycle—environment strategy, solution packaging, automated promotion, telemetry, and governance for payment-focused agents • Operate Power Platform ALM (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) using managed environments, the ALM Accelerator, and pipelines integrated with GitHub Actions • Build and maintain GitHub-native CI/CD pipelines using Actions, OIDC federation, environments, and reusable workflows for .NET, TypeScript, and IaC repositories • Implement and harden Azure platform services for payments—AKS, Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, and Key Vault—with secure-by-default networking and identity • Drive observability, reliability, and incident response across payment workloads using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and OpenTelemetry • Partner with software, data, and AI engineers to deploy, evaluate, and operate Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry workloads supporting payment initiatives • Mentor developers on DevOps practices, IaC patterns, and Power Platform / Copilot Studio governance; champion compliance with PCI DSS, change management, and SDLC standards.

About the Team: The Real-time Architectures, Integration, and Demonstration (RAID) Group focuses on transition of algorithms from concept to real-time software, providing open architecture expertise, and facilitating integration of capabilities for experimentation, test, and deployment. The Role: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will establish and maintain a continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure for real-time embedded systems software. You will work with software development teams to implement build automation, testing frameworks, containerization, and deployment pipelines for complex embedded and distributed systems. You will be responsible for creating and maintaining development environments, build systems, and tooling that enable rapid prototyping and transition of algorithms from research to real-time implementation. What you will do: - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multi-language, multi-platform software projects - Establish and maintain containerized development and deployment environments (Docker, Kubernetes) - Implement automated build systems for C/C++ and Python codebases using CMake, Conan, and similar tools - Create and maintain automated testing frameworks (unit tests, integration tests, system tests) - Implement security scanning and vulnerability assessment tools in CI/CD pipelines - Manage version control workflows and branching strategies for collaborative development - Configure and maintain GitLab runners, build agents, and testing infrastructure across multiple sites - Develop scripts and tools to automate software deployment to embedded and distributed systems - Monitor build health, test coverage, code quality metrics, and system performance - Support developers across multiple teams in resolving build, dependency, and environment issues - Document DevOps processes, tools, best practices, and technical documentation - Collaborate with software engineers, systems engineers, security, IT, and integration teams - Support approximately 20% travel for system integration events and customer demonstrations Who you are: - Active Secret security clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, for which U.S. citizenship is a government requirement - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with relevant experience depending on degree (BS +5 years, MS +3 years, PhD +1 year) - Strong proficiency with Linux system administration and embedded Linux environments - Experience with: - CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) - Scripting languages (Bash, Python) - Containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - Build systems for C/C++ projects (CMake, Make, or similar) - Version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows Even Better: - Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred) - DevOps or software infrastructure engineering experience - Experience with: - Real-time embedded systems software development - Package management systems (Conan, vcpkg, Artifactory) - Static analysis tools, code coverage tools, and performance profiling - Security scanning and vulnerability assessment tools (SonarQube, Trivy, etc.) Join us and be part of a team that's making an impact at the forefront of technology and innovation. Pay Information Full-Time Salary Range: $134,000 - $184,000 The salary range listed is based on external market data. Offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions. STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, and Carlsbad, CA. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us. STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer. STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info. STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at appassist@str.us and provide your contact info. Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.