# Senior Manager, DevOps Engineering (R5198)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 180,000-280,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As the Hivemind Solutions DevOps Lead, you will lead, scale, and mentor a high-impact team of DevOps and Infrastructure Engineers responsible for the software development life cycle, build pipelines, developer environment tooling, and release infrastructure across all Hivemind Solutions.

Your team is the foundation of our engineering velocity, owning the tools and pipelines that enable hundreds of autonomy, software, and systems engineers to safely and rapidly compile, test, configure, and release AI Pilot capabilities.

You will drive the modernization of our build and packaging systems (Conan, Poetry, CMake, CUE, and upcoming adoption of Nix) and ensure our software delivery pipelines, Artifactory registries, developer tooling, and Gov Cloud test environments remain highly performant, scalable, and resilient.

Responsibilities:

- Manage and grow a team of specialized DevOps, build, and infrastructure engineers. Set clear technical goals, conduct performance reviews, provide mentorship, and foster a culture of high operational excellence.

- Maintain, optimize, and standardize C++, Python, and Node.js build ecosystems across the organization using tools like Conan, CMake, and Poetry, while leading the technical roadmap and migration strategy for emerging reproducible environment tooling such as Nix.

- Partner closely with the Hivemind Platform (HMP) team to ensure seamless technical alignment, common build patterns, and efficient packaging/dependency update strategies between Platform products and Hivemind Solutions programs.

- Own the performance, security, and scaling of repository hosting and CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.

- Govern Artifactory remote registries and orchestrate secure container build workflows using BuildKit/Docker.

- Champion the "Developer Experience" (DevEx) by optimizing local development environments.

- Support the deployment, scaling, and orchestration of the Forge simulation and test orchestrator within Gov Cloud environments.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams to align DevOps roadmaps with broader Hivemind Solutions milestones.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline and 7+ years of related experience (or 5+ years with a Master’s, or equivalent practical experience), including 2+ years of direct people leadership, team lead, or engineering management experience.

- Strong practical experience managing enterprise C/C++ build systems and package management.

- Proven track record building, maintaining, and scaling enterprise CI/CD systems.

- Familiarity with Nix or other reproducible development environments.

- Direct experience with Jira, Confluence, and GitLab integrations.

- Hands-on experience managing Artifactory, Docker registries, and multi-stage Docker builds.

- Familiarity with deploying and managing test runners or applications in cloud environments.

- Solid Linux system administration skills.

- Experience with secure software development practices and compliance frameworks.

- Ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. SECRET security clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- Node.js
- Conan
- CMake
- Poetry
- GitLab
- Artifactory
- Docker
- BuildKit
- Jira
- Confluence
- Linux
- Nix

### Nice to have
- CUE
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- Entra ID

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