Job Description

**About Swoop:**

Swoop Technologies has a mission to organize and make accessible the world’s
military and critical infrastructure. We are building a distributed operating
system, SwoopOS, that decomposes the world’s equipment into a distributed
robotic embodiment upon which a new generation of distributed systems,
autonomous systems, and agentic AI can be built and deployed using our SDK,
Valhalla, and operated via our browser, Surf. Imagine the world’s equipment -
consisting of the electrical grid, communications architectures, manufacturing
facilities, and militaries as a trapped supply of inputs possessing the
potential to ensure Western military advantage, sovereign control of
economically competitive manufacturing capacity, or the creation of a grid
that fosters energy dominance. Swoop is liberating these trapped assets,
allowing them to contribute to the world’s future as a series of building
blocks to be combined at the speed of software, limited by only the hard
constraints of physics and the soft constraints of safety. That is what Swoop
is building. Not in the data center or cloud or edge on-premise computing
node. In the physical world. **This is a hybrid position that requires someone
based in Minneapolis/St. Paul or Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days
per week**

**Impact:**

You will work with the existing infrastructure and deployment team to
automate, scale and test deployments of Swoop Technologies’ products.
Deployments may include secure, airgapped, on prem, remote, bare metal and
cloud environments. Currently, deployments are closely tied to a gitlab CI/CD
infrastructure. Day to day tasks will include spinning up and down AWS
resources to support code development and testing, refining Terraform
provisioning scripts, monitoring and building out profiling metrics, and
securing overall cloud presence.

**What You’ll Do:**

* Building out automation around monitoring of cloud resource health and usage
* Working with security engineers to ensure NIST, STIG compliance of cloud applications
* Automation of cloud resource provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
* Streamlining the process by which developers deploy, run and test code in cloud environments
* Enabling appropriate cloud and orchestration scaling mechanisms to ensure ideal balance of performance and resource use efficiency
* Support code and resource updates of client installations
* Work with client engineers to monitor and fine tune their resources

**You Should Have:**

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
* Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance
* 3+ yrs in cloud provisioning and management
* Understanding of basic software security standards, CI/CD configuration, and buildout (i.e. configuring gitlab.yaml files)
* Code containerization (reading and editing Dockerfiles); Container orchestration (Kubernetes); Provisioning (Terraform); Cloud Deployments (AWS); Resource monitoring (Promethius)
* Linux, CentOS, Windows knowledge
* Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting

**Bonus if you have:**

* AWS Certifications
* Experience working in AWS gov cloud
* Competent in networking and virtualization (firewalls, IP tables, virtual environments, containerization, VMWare, application ingress, etc).
* Test/QA automation
* Code quality and security scanning using tools such as SonarQube

_Swoop Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin,
disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor
protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws._