What are the responsibilities and job description for the DevOps Engineer position at ST Engineering iDirect?
Overview
At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning!
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to increase productivity, site/platform reliability of operations, quality, scalability and security through small batch updates, automation, monitoring, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Continuous Flow). This role enables the engineering delivery teams to accomplish tasks such as infrastructure provisioning and build, bundle, test and deploy, in a self-service model, for both development and production environments.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about automation, reliability, scalability, and accelerating software delivery. In this role, you will partner with engineering teams to streamline infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and enhance the overall developer experience.
Responsibilities
Bachelor’s degree in systems, Electrical, Software Engineering, or other technical field. A graduate degree a plus. 5 years’ experience in any or several of the following areas:
At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning!
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to increase productivity, site/platform reliability of operations, quality, scalability and security through small batch updates, automation, monitoring, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Continuous Flow). This role enables the engineering delivery teams to accomplish tasks such as infrastructure provisioning and build, bundle, test and deploy, in a self-service model, for both development and production environments.
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who is passionate about automation, reliability, scalability, and accelerating software delivery. In this role, you will partner with engineering teams to streamline infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and enhance the overall developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Support teams with self‑service tools for provisioning, building, testing, and deploying applications.
- Improve system reliability, security, and scalability using automation and modern DevOps practices.
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
- Work across cloud infrastructure (AWS), networking, system administration, and security.
- Implement infrastructure‑as‑code and environment automation.
- Drive operational excellence through monitoring, logging, and process improvements.
- Software programming
- Shell scripting
- Network architecture
- Infrastructure architecture
- System administration
- Information security
- Additional knowledge or depth of experience in the following areas a plus:
- Strong practical Linux and Windows-based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment.
- Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
- Prior success in automating a real-world production environment.
- Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
- Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
- Experience with automation and infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Ability to collaborate with engineering teams and improve delivery workflows.
- Constantly interested in decreasing time to market, increasing quality, and looking for new/better ways to do things
- Hands‑on experience with Ansible for configuration management.
- Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Experience building automated infrastructure and deployment workflows.
- Understanding of code deployment strategies, tagging, and release processes.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals (DNS, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls).
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GitLab.