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Job Title: Fleet Operations Engineer (DevOps Focus)
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid with potential travel)
Employment Type: Full-Time Permanent
We re looking for a hands-on Fleet Operations Engineer with a DevOps mindset to support the configuration, deployment, and upkeep of systems installed on specialized vehicles. This role focuses on preparing trucks for demos, customer delivery, and operational use particularly within air-gapped or closed-network environments where typical cloud deployment pipelines don t apply.
What You Ll Do
Location: Phoenix, AZ (Hybrid with potential travel)
Employment Type: Full-Time Permanent
We re looking for a hands-on Fleet Operations Engineer with a DevOps mindset to support the configuration, deployment, and upkeep of systems installed on specialized vehicles. This role focuses on preparing trucks for demos, customer delivery, and operational use particularly within air-gapped or closed-network environments where typical cloud deployment pipelines don t apply.
What You Ll Do
- Configure, install, and prepare onboard systems for demonstrations and customer delivery.
- Standardize and streamline update processes for vehicles, reducing the time demand on other engineering teams.
- Build and maintain repeatable deployment workflows for closed or air-gapped networks.
- Support release activities and ensure vehicles can be updated consistently and efficiently.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to understand system behaviors and translate requirements into repeatable operational steps.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites to assist with on-vehicle configuration, updates, or troubleshooting.
- Git or similar version control
- Docker
- Ansible
- VPN technologies
- Linux environments
- Familiarity with Python, JavaScript, or C (no coding required, but helpful for understanding system behavior)
- Experience with DevOps practices, system configuration, or infrastructure automation.
- Comfortable working in restricted, offline, or air-gapped environments.
- Ability to grasp code concepts without needing to write production code.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to bring structure to evolving processes.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
- Experience in the following industries is beneficial but not required: Aerospace, Automative, Defense