Senior DevOps Engineer
Neros Technologies · Torrance, CA
$145,000–$205,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Torrance, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role at a defense drone manufacturer, focused on owning and operating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and secure-environment compliance for all software the company ships. Day-to-day work spans Azure cloud services, container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, Linux administration, and observability. The role suits an experienced platform or DevOps engineer comfortable making architectural decisions in security-sensitive, fast-moving environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
No work location is specified in the posting. Given Neros is a defense hardware/drone manufacturer, this is likely an on-site or hybrid role, but the JD does not confirm; remote=false is assumed.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes and ships infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a heavy operational/administration flavor — Linux hardening, network architecture, secrets management — that overlaps with 15-1244. The primary framing ('design and operate platforms', 'architectural decisions', IaC) tips it to 15-1252.
No security clearance is explicitly required, though the defense context and references to FIPS/NIST/RMF in the Nice-to-Have section suggest clearance eligibility may be informally expected.
FIPS 140-2/3, NIST SP 800-171/172/800-53, zero-trust, STIG/RMF, and embedded Linux/C/C++ all appear under the 'Nice to Have' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Secrets management and certificate lifecycle management are listed as required but name no specific tool; they are captured under the canonical 'PKI' skill.
Network architecture concepts (VPNs, firewalls, DNS, load balancing) are required but name no specific product; omitted as a named-tool skill per extraction rules.
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