DevOps Engineer

MOLG; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Molg seeks a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Sterling, VA team. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines across robotics, embedded, and on-prem systems, containerize workloads, and build automated release processes with HIL/SIL validation.

You will establish monitoring and security practices, improve developer tooling, and own infrastructure reliability in a fast-paced, autonomous environment at our HQ in Sterling. Prior robotics or industrial infra experience is a strong plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability experience with responsibility for production infra.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling and pipeline design, secrets management, and artifact handling.
• Experience containerizing workloads and deploying across on-premise environments.
• Hands-on with IaC tools and scripting in Python or Bash.
• Experience administering Linux systems in production and monitoring stacks.
• Familiarity with containerized robotics or edge deployments is a plus.
• Strong networking fundamentals and documentation skills.
• Ability to work in-person at Molg HQ in Sterling, VA.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across robotics, embedded, and on-prem systems.
• Containerize workloads using Docker/Docker Compose and ensure consistent environments from dev to production.
• Develop and maintain automated build, test, and release pipelines with HIL/SIL stages.
• Establish robust monitoring, alerting, and observability across deployed systems.
• Define quality gates in CI/CD and prevent regressions from reaching production.
• Improve developer tooling and local dev environments to boost velocity.
• Drive security best practices including secrets management and network security.
• Maintain on-premise networking, switches, VLANs, and firewalls; respond to incidents.

Skills

CI/CD

Docker

Python/Bash

Linux administration

Monitoring

Networking

Documentation

SRE/Platform engineering

Robotics/embedded experience

GitHub Actions

Tools

Docker Compose

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

DevOps Engineer

ABOUT US

Hey! We're Molg We're building robotic systems that make electronics manufacturing circular. We work with hyperscalers and leading electronics manufacturers to automate how hardware is designed, manufactured, disassembled, repaired, reused, and recovered. Using robotics, computational design, and AI, our systems turn today's e-waste into resilient, data-driven supply chains-and change how electronics are made in the first place.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support rapid, reliable deployment of software across robotics, embedded, and on-premise systems.
• Collaborate with software and robotics engineers to containerize workloads using Docker/Orbstack, ensuring consistent environments from development through production across local and factory-floor deployments.
• Develop and maintain automated build, test, and release pipelines- integrating hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) test stages for robotics system validation.
• Establish robust monitoring, alerting, and observability across Molg's fleet of deployed robotic systems and on-premise infrastructure.
• Partner with QA and engineering teams to define quality gates in CI/CD pipelines and ensure regressions are caught before reaching production.
• Manage and improve developer tooling, local dev environments, and internal platform services to maximize engineering velocity.
• Drive security best practices across infrastructure- secrets management, access control, vulnerability scanning, and network security for on-premise systems.
• Administer and maintain local networking infrastructure including switches, VLANs, firewalls, and machine-to-machine communication across the factory floor.
• Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents, conduct post-mortems, and implement lasting fixes.
• Contribute to a culture of automation - if something is done manually more than twice, help build the system that makes it automatic.

You'll have the opportunity to build alongside an incredible team, develop innovative solutions, and grow in a fast-paced environment that values autonomy and impact.

WHO YOU ARE:

• 5+ years of industry experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with demonstrated ownership of production infrastructure.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar—including pipeline design, secrets management, and artifact management.
• Strong experience with containerization using Docker and Docker Compose- building, deploying, and managing containers across on-premise environments.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent) managing on-premise servers and networked systems.
• Solid scripting and automation skills in Python and/or Bash.
• Experience administering Linux systems in a production environment—server provisioning, hardening, storage, and maintenance.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar).
• Experience supporting embedded or robotics systems, edge deployments, or industrial environments is a strong plus.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLANs, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and local area network administration.
• Strong communication skills and a bias toward documentation - you leave things better than you found them.
• Ability to work in-person at Molg HQ in Sterling, VA.

REPORTING STRUCTURE:

This role reports directly to the Director of Process Engineering.

WHO WE ARE:

We spend our days building robotic systems, developing complex assembly intelligence software, and designing the next generation of circular products for our customers. Given the importance of working hands-on with physical systems, we are a 100% in-person team collaboratively working in our industrial space in Sterling, VA, down the road from the largest data center market in the world. Our facility includes a variety of robots, CNC milling machines, 3D printers, and all the tools needed to build and test our products. It is important to us that anyone on our team that is interested in learning how to use our various pieces of equipment and machinery is taught and can gain the skills and appreciation for making physical things.

THINGS TO KNOW:

• We're a hands-on collaborative team with big ambitions, and there's a good amount of context-switching. We expect people to be autonomous and drive their own work to completion.
• We are scrappy and looking to build a great sustainable company for years to come.
• As a growing company and startup, priorities may shift as customer or business requirements change. We strive to empower individuals with context and decision-making power to meet this need.