DevSecOps Engineer (Software Engineering Focus)

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. 

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

 

Role Overview:

CHAOS is seeking a highly-skilled and motivated DevSecOps/Platform Engineer to join our team supporting our R&D and product engineering initially focusing on our next-generation Command and Control (C2) and radar products. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to work on multiple capabilities within our product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product families.   

Responsibilities: 

• Manage and orchestrate containerized Python package applications using Docker (Swarm and/or Compose) and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize application deployment and performance
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) principles
• Monitor and troubleshoot platform issues, ensuring high availability and performance
• Develop and maintain documentation for our infrastructure and processes
• Contribute to the overall improvement of our DevOps practices
• Work full-time on-site in our office in Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or higher Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related degree
• 5+ years of proven experience in a DevOps/Platform Engineering role
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Artifactory, and other CI/CD tools
• Proficiency with containerization and technologies (Docker Swarm and/or Compose, Podman) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
• Experience with Azure cloud platform and on-premise infrastructure deployment strategies
• Solid understanding of cloud deployment best practices
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools
• Strong background in Linux, containerization and virtualization with a GPU accelerated runtime
• Excellent scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Groovy)
• Understands the software development life cycle and the various related tools such as VCS (Git, SVN), their servers (GitHub, BitBucket), project management (Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects)
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S.-only data systems 
• Experience creating from scratch infrastructure of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef)
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging systems (e.g., Grafana, ELK stack)
• Experience with database administration
• Familiarity with Agile (Scrum) methodologies

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with DoD & related System/SW Architectures and messaging standards (e.g. OMS, SOSA, Link-16, etc) 
• Experience designing & implementing tracking and track fusion algorithms
• Development experience in Ground or Airborne Sensors (Radars, EO/IR, EW, etc.)
• Experience with Networks (software and hardware)
• Experience with advanced Time Synchronization technologies beyond NTP
• Experience with git
• Experience with Containers (e.g. Docker, Podman, etc.)
• Familiarity with cloud computing and virtualization technologies (e.g. WSL, KVM, Hyper-V, VMware)
• Experience with Modeling