Senior DevOps Engineer - Shield AI
View Company Profile- Job Title
- Senior DevOps Engineer
- Job Location
- Melbourne
- Job Description
- Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With nine offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.We’re building intelligent systems that protect service members and civilians. Our autonomy and vision technology is now being adopted across some of the most complex and high-stakes environments in modern defence.We’ve developed a dedicated software factory for building, optimising, evaluating, and analysing autonomy and vision system solutions - and it’s gaining serious momentum. As demand grows, we’re working closely with partners and customers to solve real warfighting problems and deliver technology that genuinely changes what’s possible.This role sits at the heart of that mission.What You'll Do:
- Support and evolve containerised CI/CD pipelines across multiple isolated environments.
- Manage JFrog/Artifactory repositories for multi-language and generic artefacts.
- Validate and deploy autonomy and vision-system products, tools, and libraries.
- Collaborate with engineers and system admins to ensure integration and stability.
- Tackle complex, meaningful problems that directly support mission outcomes.
What You'll Bring:- Significant recent experience in a hands-on DevOps environments (e.g. GitLab, Azure DevOps, Atlassian).
- Experience supporting C++ and Python-based applications.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix and Windows systems.
- Familiarity with C++/Conan build systems and Python deployment/distribution.
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting distributed systems.
- Background in air-gapped or isolated DevOps environments (highly regarded).
- A reliable, collaborative, low-ego teammate with high standards.
Why Shield AI?- Help shape the future of defence and autonomy in Australia and beyond.
- Be a key voice in a mission-led business redefining what’s possible with emerging technology.
- Join a growing, values-led team headquartered in Port Melbourne, with strong global partnerships and local autonomy.
- Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and long-term growth opportunities.
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Shield AI Company Size
Between 500 - 1,000 employees
Shield AI Founded Year
2015
Shield AI Total Amount Raised
$1,313,144,960
Shield AI Funding Rounds
View funding detailsSeries F
$240,000,000 USD
Debt Financing
$200,000,000 USD
Series F
$300,000,000 USD
Series E
$60,000,000 USD
Series E
$90,000,000 USD
Debt Financing
$75,000,000 USD
Series D
$210,000,000 USD
Series C
$70,000,000 USD
Debt Financing
$20,000,000 USD
Series B
$25,000,000 USD
Series A
$10,000,000 USD
Series A
$10,500,000 USD
Seed
$2,049,999 USD
Angel
$595,000 USD