Firestorm

Senior DevOps Build Engineer

Firestorm
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22 days ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$150k - $175k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to compile, test, package, and publish software.
  • Own reproducible builds, release engineering, semantic versioning, dependency management, and promotion across environments.
  • Manage artifact repositories and container registries, including retention, access control, and provenance.
  • Develop build tooling and automation scripts with Python, Bash, Make, Bazel, or Gradle.
  • Optimize build performance through caching, parallelization, and incremental build strategies.
  • Integrate security and quality gates such as SAST, SCA, dependency scanning, and SBOM generation.
  • Build, patch, harden, and maintain container images and base image pipelines.
  • Provision infrastructure and build environments using Terraform.
  • Partner with development, security, and compliance teams to provide self-service tooling and audit evidence.
  • Maintain documentation, runbooks, and organizational build and release standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • At least 8 years of experience in build/release engineering, DevOps, or software infrastructure roles.
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting and automation skills.
  • Experience with artifact and dependency management tools such as Artifactory or Nexus and with container registries.
  • Proficiency with Git-based version control and branching and release workflows.
  • Working knowledge of Docker containerization.
  • Experience with AWS or Azure.
  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
  • Preferred experience with DevSecOps, SAST/DAST/SCA scanning, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, and Cosign/Sigstore artifact signing.
  • Preferred Kubernetes experience with EKS, AKS, or self-managed Kubernetes, including Helm packaging.
  • Preferred GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux.
  • Preferred experience with Conan, C/C++ package management, YOCTO, custom recipes, and remote artifact caching.
  • Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, IL4/IL5 environments, and DoD or federal compliance frameworks including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, and DFARS.
  • An active Secret or Top Secret security clearance is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan.
  • Equity grants for new hires.
  • Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday calendar with July and December holiday hiatuses.
  • Generous parental leave.
  • Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
  • Hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
  • Basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance, with coverage fully paid by Firestorm; additional life insurance is available for purchase.
  • Free 24/7 mental health resources plus legal and financial support services.
  • Role is based in San Diego, California, with local or relocation candidates welcomed and relocation assistance potentially available.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashBazelC++DockerGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGradleHelmJenkinsKubernetesMakePythonTerraform

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About Firestorm

201-500 employees
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