Aether Aerospace

Aether Aerospace

Aether Aerospace is a defense technology company established in 2025 through the merger of CTSi, EXPANSIA, JHNA, and TSA. The company focuses on providing innovative solutions for warfighter support across land, sea, air, and space. Aether Aerospace offers a range of services, including digital engineering, Digital Engineering Ecosystems, open architecture solutions, modeling and simulation, advanced prototyping, and modernization for aviation and unmanned systems. The company places a strong emphasis on drone development and service delivery, catering to the needs of various defense and security sectors. Its customer base includes all branches of the Department of War, NASA, and commercial partners. Aether Aerospace is committed to the innovation, development, and delivery of effective defense technology solutions.

aviation & aerospace
501-1000

Description

  • Design and integrate software factory services across source control, CI/CD, repositories, security scanning, testing, cloud infrastructure, and observability.
  • Advise programs on selecting, onboarding to, and sustaining use of Platform One, ODIN, DAF CloudWorks, or similar software factories.
  • Lead application integrations with established factories and resolve gaps between platform services and program needs.
  • Develop reusable CI/CD templates, infrastructure-as-code modules, container baselines, deployment patterns, and platform services.
  • Architect secure cloud and container environments covering networking, identity, secrets, storage, compute, Kubernetes, logging, and environment separation.
  • Integrate automated testing, security controls, SBOMs, artifact provenance, vulnerability management, and RMF/ATO evidence collection.
  • Define onboarding, self-service, documentation, API, and support practices that improve developer experience.
  • Guide deployment, monitoring, incident response, reliability, and configuration-management practices across environments.
  • Troubleshoot complex platform issues, evaluate design tradeoffs, and improve security, availability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers, coordinate technical decisions with customers and cybersecurity stakeholders, and measure platform adoption and operational health.

Requirements

  • Active TS/SCI clearance.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 8–10 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 6–8 years of relevant experience.
  • Extensive experience designing shared software delivery platforms, DevSecOps toolchains, and reusable CI/CD patterns.
  • Experience guiding application teams through software factory onboarding, security, access, integration, and release processes.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Advanced scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
  • Strong cloud architecture expertise in AWS or Azure, including identity, networking, storage, compute, containers, and Kubernetes.
  • Hands-on knowledge of automated security controls, software supply-chain protections, observability, and DoD RMF/ATO evidence requirements.
  • Experience with Platform One, ODIN, DAF CloudWorks, or comparable DoD software factories (preferred).
  • Experience with standardized onboarding, hardened containers, SBOMs, high-availability cloud systems, incident response, mentoring, or AI-assisted development workflows (preferred).

Benefits

  • Full-time, permanent employment.
  • Remote work location.
  • Immediate start date.
  • Equal opportunity employment.

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