Principal Deployment Architect - Kubernetes & CI/CD Lead

SciTec; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 151,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term Disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead Deployment Environments. You will establish secure, observable, and reliable practices for building, packaging, deploying, and operating software that supports mission-critical data processing, visualization, and workflows.

The role combines hands-on engineering with mentoring, guiding teams on CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Helm, and security, while collaborating with enterprise infrastructure and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting production software systems with build/deployment infrastructure.
• Deep experience with containerization (Docker and/or Podman) including image construction, optimization, and security.
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes including resource management, scheduling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience packaging and deploying workloads with Helm or similar tools.
• Experience designing and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with local Kubernetes environments (Minikube, KinD) for development/testing.
• Experience with observability, logging, and monitoring for containerized workloads.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript/Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Assess current build, packaging, and deployment practices across engineering teams.
• Define evaluation criteria for a Core Collection of deployment technologies.
• Document recommended technologies and ADRs with runbooks and guides.
• Build and maintain reference pipelines, Helm charts, container images, and starter templates.
• Guide CI/CD pipeline design, automation, and reproducible builds.
• Establish practices for image construction, security, and deployment packaging.
• Improve local development environments and integration testing workflows.
• Guide deployment strategies, rollbacks, and release promotion.
• Report adoption outcomes to engineering leadership.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Kubernetes

Programming (Python)

Scripting (Bash/Go)

Linux environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Helm

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead Deployment Environments. You will establish secure, observable, and reliable practices for building, packaging, deploying, and operating software that supports mission-critical data processing, visualization, and workflows.

The role combines hands-on engineering with mentoring, guiding teams on CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Helm, and security, while collaborating with enterprise infrastructure and