Senior DevOps Build Engineer — Mission-Critical CI/CD

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401(k)

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Mental Health Resources

Job summary

Firestorm Labs is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Build Engineer to join our growing team in San Diego. The DevOps Build Engineer will own build and release engineering, turning source code into secure, reproducible, deployable artifacts across our defense and government contract programs.

This role designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and artifact management systems, partnering with development teams to deliver fast, reliable, auditable builds while baking security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 8+ years in build/release engineering, DevOps, or software infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Strong scripting and automation in Python and Bash.
• Experience with artifact management (Artifactory/Nexus) and container registries.
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and branching/release workflows.
• Knowledge of Docker and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple programs.
• Own end-to-end build automation and release engineering with reproducible builds.
• Manage artifact repositories and container registries, including access control and provenance.
• Develop build tooling and scripts to standardize and speed up builds.
• Optimize build performance with caching, parallelization, and incremental builds.
• Integrate security and quality gates (SAST, SCA, SBOM) into pipelines.
• Build and maintain container images and base image pipelines, patched and compliant.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
• Collaborate with development, security, and compliance teams for self-service tooling and audit trails.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and standards for build/release processes.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Git-based workflows

Docker

Cloud platforms

Security/compliance in build

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Artifactory/Nexus

Docker registry

Terraform

Job description

Firestorm Labs is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Build Engineer to join our growing team in San Diego. The DevOps Build Engineer will own build and release engineering, turning source code into secure, reproducible, deployable artifacts across our defense and government contract programs.

This role designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and artifact management systems, partnering with development teams to deliver fast, reliable, auditable builds while baking security and