DevOps Engineer

About this role

Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers.

Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives. Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth.

In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego, and staying power doesn’t mean standing still. About the role We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to own build and deployment automation for Vannevar Labs. Your decisions today will have a large impact on the company’s future. We believe that simple systems are easier to understand, maintain, and scale.

You will be making trade-offs as you work to ensure that our systems are prepared to operate in both commercial and high-side environments at scale — being able to effectively communicate these trade-offs with your teammates is a must. What you'll do Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling and planning. Developing self-service tools and automating things to improve data engineering efficiency.

Build logging and monitoring tools to visualize the state of the platform and improve our SRE practices. Play a critical part in implementing a secure, robust and high availability DevOps pipeline. Work with the team to continue the build out of a multi-account AWS environment. Automate build & deployment processes. Qualifications 5+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering. Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.