Senior Software Factory Engineer — Remote (TS/SCI)

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 137,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Aether Aerospace seeks a Software Factory Engineer IV to design, integrate, and improve secure software factory capabilities used by mission software teams. You will connect cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, and reusable platform services into a coherent delivery environment.

You will advise DoD programs on onboarding to Platform One, ODIN, and DAF CloudWorks, guiding complex integration decisions with DoD stakeholders while mentoring engineers and ensuring RMF/ATO compliance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and integrating shared software delivery platforms.
• Proven ability to onboard and sustain use of a software factory across multiple programs.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and scripting.
• Strong cloud architecture expertise in AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and integrate software factory services spanning source control, CI/CD, artifact repositories, registries, security scanning, test automation, secrets, cloud infrastructure, and observability
• Advise programs on factory selection and onboarding, including application architecture, access and identity, environment needs, interfaces, inherited and application-specific controls, release paths, and sustainment responsibilities
• Lead technical integration of applications with established factories, including Platform One, ODIN, or DAF CloudWorks as applicable; resolve gaps between factory services and program delivery needs
• Establish reusable CI/CD templates, infrastructure-as-code modules, container baselines, deployment patterns, and platform services that scale across application teams
• Architect secure cloud and container environments, including networking, identity, secrets, storage, compute, Kubernetes, logging, and separation of environments
• Embed automated testing, SAST/DAST/SCA, SBOMs, artifact provenance, vulnerability management, and evidence collection into delivery workflows in partnership with RMF/ATO stakeholders
• Define application onboarding and self-service practices, documentation, templates, APIs, and support pathways that improve developer experience and reduce time to first deployment
• Guide artifact promotion, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and reliability practices across development, test, and production
• Troubleshoot complex platform and toolchain issues, assess design tradeoffs, and implement changes that improve security, availability, performance, and maintainability
• Mentor engineers and application teams, share architectural patterns and lessons learned, and coordinate technical decisions with customer and cybersecurity stakeholders
• Measure platform adoption, onboarding friction, delivery performance, and operational health; use the results to prioritize improvements
• Provide technical support to operational strategies aligned within your program and initiatives that optimize processes, enhance productivity, and ensure quality across all program functions
• Ensure 100% of planned hours are worked and recorded
• Identify and forward to your leadership any opportunities that could lead to growth within your work area
• Participate in growth efforts as requested
• Ensure all contractual deliverables are met/exceeded to the customer's satisfaction
• Complete personal PDP and attend Staff Meeting and Storytime (with camera on)
• Within your program, build productive and positive professional relationships with clients
• Execute all contract requirements as assigned in accordance with the contract-specific LCAT and requirements
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Skills

DevSecOps toolchains

CI/CD patterns

Cloud architecture

Infrastructure as code

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Aether Aerospace seeks a Software Factory Engineer IV to design, integrate, and improve secure software factory capabilities used by mission software teams. You will connect cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, and reusable platform services into a coherent delivery environment.

You will advise DoD programs on onboarding to Platform One, ODIN, and DAF CloudWorks, guiding complex integration decisions with DoD stakeholders while mentoring engineers and ensuring RMF/ATO compliance.