Principal DevOps Engineer

Business Unit:

Cubic Defense

Company Details:

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.Job Details:

Our team is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to power the next generation of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) technology. This role will focus on high-performance data streaming, handling large volumes of geospatial imagery, maps, and 3D data across both connected and disconnected environments.

Role Highlights:

• Deployment Flexibility: Hybrid cloud/on-prem solutions to support critical geospatial intel at the tactical edge.
• Data Streaming & CI/CD: Optimize low-latency data access and build robust CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable deployments.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure data integrity and compliance in line with military-grade standards.
   

Ideal for those experienced with geospatial data tech (PostGIS, ArcGIS, QGIS), hybrid deployments, and high-performance server management.

We're looking for a highly skilled Principal DevOps Engineer to lead complex software engineering tasks in a dynamic production environment. This role will act as a senior technical consultant, overseeing design, development, testing, and deployment engineering activities. You’ll play a key part in advancing our CI/CD pipeline to support both VMware and cloud environments (AWS) and will provide strategic technical guidance on complex issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead automation and CI/CD pipeline improvements, using Jenkins, GitLab, MS Team Foundations Server (TFS), and other collaboration tools.
• Provide technical direction to development teams, drive strategic solutions, and resolve significant technical challenges.
• Design, implement, and support development and production network environments.
• Communicate technical advancements and create proposals, design reviews, and vendor evaluations.
• Ensure continuous improvement by identifying engineering process enhancements.
• Some travel to customer sites up to 10%. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred) and 8+ years of relevant experience, and/or the combined equivalent of experience and education.
• Strong background with Jenkins, GitLab, Azure, AWS, Windows, and Linux.
• Familiarity with PC software (Word, Excel, CASE tools) and ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
• Active Secret clearance or higher preferred.  US citizenship is required. 

Cubic Pay Range:

$100,000 – $160,740 + benefits.

The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Worker Type:

Employee