Senior Devops Engineer

Senior Devops Engineer
About project:
TROP is an advanced situational awareness and operational coordination platform developed by Defencebay. By combining real-time mapping, secure communications, drone integration, AI-ready workflows and resilient Mesh LoRa networking, TROP helps teams maintain a shared operational picture when standard infrastructure is limited or unavailable. We are building next-generation technology for public safety, emergency response, critical infrastructure protection and defense operations.
Defencebay is a sub-brand of Solstice Analytics, focused on building advanced technologies for public safety, defense, and crisis communication systems. The recruitment process for this role is conducted under the Defencebay brand, as part of our dedicated product team working on the TROP platform. While being part of the broader Solstice Analytics organization, Defencebay operates as an independent product unit responsible for developing mission-critical solutions in the area of situational awareness and resilient communications
About the Role
We're looking for a Mid & Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and operate the infrastructure behind TROP – a mission-critical situational awareness platform used for tactical communication, crisis response, and real-time operations.
You'll work on Kubernetes-based environments, GitOps deployments, CI/CD automation, observability, and on-premise installations. Your work will directly impact systems that must remain reliable in demanding operational environments.
– Build, maintain, and improve Kubernetes infrastructure for development and customer environments.
– Manage GitOps workflows using Helm, ArgoCD, Applications, and ApplicationSets.
– Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
– Monitor production services, troubleshoot incidents, and optimize system reliability.
– Maintain the observability stack, including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Alertmanager, and GlitchTip/Sentry.
– Configure ingress controllers, networking, TLS certificates, and secure service access.
– Collaborate with Backend, Frontend, AI, and Mobile teams on deployments, debugging, and production incidents.
– Prepare and maintain on-premise and air-gapped deployments using Zarf.
– Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and troubleshooting production workloads.
– Solid knowledge of Helm and GitOps practices, preferably with ArgoCD.
– Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based workflows.
– Strong Linux administration skills, including networking, certificates, and service access management.
– Experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (or Terragrunt).
– Ability to analyze logs, metrics, alerts, and efficiently handle production incidents.
– Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Sentry/GlitchTip.
– Comfortable working with YAML, Bash, and reading Python or TypeScript code.
– Experience with Kargo, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, or similar progressive deployment tools.
– Experience with Zarf, k3s, and air-gapped or on-premise deployments.
– Knowledge of bare-metal Kubernetes, MetalLB, and advanced TCP/TLS networking.
– Experience with real-time media systems and protocols such as RTSP, RTMP, WebRTC, SRT, or MediaMTX.
– Familiarity with GPU workloads and AI infrastructure running on Kubernetes.