Senior DevOps Engineer
Shield AI
Software Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted 6+ months ago
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With nine offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
We’re building intelligent systems that protect service members and civilians. Our autonomy and vision technology is now being adopted across some of the most complex and high-stakes environments in modern defence.
We’ve developed a dedicated software factory for building, optimising, evaluating, and analysing autonomy and vision system solutions - and it’s gaining serious momentum. As demand grows, we’re working closely with partners and customers to solve real warfighting problems and deliver technology that genuinely changes what’s possible.
This role sits at the heart of that mission.
What You'll Do:
- Support and evolve containerised CI/CD pipelines across multiple isolated environments.
- Manage JFrog/Artifactory repositories for multi-language and generic artefacts.
- Validate and deploy autonomy and vision-system products, tools, and libraries.
- Collaborate with engineers and system admins to ensure integration and stability.
- Tackle complex, meaningful problems that directly support mission outcomes.
What You'll Bring:
- Significant recent experience in a hands-on DevOps environments (e.g. GitLab, Azure DevOps, Atlassian).
- Experience supporting C++ and Python-based applications.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows systems.
- Familiarity with C++/Conan build systems and Python deployment/distribution.
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Background in air-gapped or isolated DevOps environments (highly regarded).
- A reliable, collaborative, low-ego teammate with high standards.
Why Shield AI?
- Help shape the future of defence and autonomy in Australia and beyond.
- Be a key voice in a mission-led business redefining what’s possible with emerging technology.
- Join a growing, values-led team headquartered in Port Melbourne, with strong global partnerships and local autonomy.
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and long-term growth opportunities.
Help us redefine what’s possible in autonomous defence - apply today.
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.