Robotics DevOps Engineer - On-Prem & CI/CD

MOLG; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Molg is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our hands-on, in-person team in Sterling, VA. You will own the infrastructure, tooling, and deployment systems powering our robotic microfactories and software platforms, collaborating across software, robotics, and hardware teams.

You will design CI/CD pipelines, containerize workloads, and implement automated build, test, and release stages with hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop validation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE with production infra ownership.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar).
• Strong containerization experience with Docker and Docker Compose for on-prem environments.
• Hands-on with IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform) managing on-prem servers and networks.
• Scripting in Python and/or Bash; Linux production administration.
• Knowledge of monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployments across robotics and on-premise systems.
• Containerize workloads and ensure consistent environments from development to production.
• Develop automated build, test, and release pipelines with HIL/SIL stages for robotics validation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for deployed systems.
• Define quality gates in CI/CD pipelines to catch regressions before production.
• Improve developer tooling and local dev environments to boost velocity.
• Drive security practices: secrets management, access control, vulnerability scanning, and network security.
• Manage local networking: switches, VLANs, firewalls, and M2M on factory floor.
• Respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and implement lasting fixes.

Skills

Scripting

Automation

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Docker

Docker Compose

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Molg is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our hands-on, in-person team in Sterling, VA. You will own the infrastructure, tooling, and deployment systems powering our robotic microfactories and software platforms, collaborating across software, robotics, and hardware teams.

You will design CI/CD pipelines, containerize workloads, and implement automated build, test, and release stages with hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop validation.