Start Date: Immediate
JHNA, CTSi, and EXPANSIA have come together to form a Defense Technology platform named Aether Aerospace focused on delivering high-impact technologies, technology-enabled services and advanced manufacturing solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and related national security customers. Backed by Falfurrias Management Partners, the platform brings together deep domain expertise across Army, Navy, and Air Force and Space Force programs, digital engineering, systems integration, and specialized manufacturing capabilities.The combined organization operates as a multi-entity aerospace and defense technology and tech-enabled services and manufacturing enterprise positioned for scalable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation
OVERVIEWFull-time/Permanent Employee
Location: RemoteAs a Software Factory Engineer IV, you will design, integrate, and improve secure software factory capabilities used by multiple mission software teams. You will connect cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, development tools, cybersecurity controls, observability, and reusable platform services into a coherent delivery environment. You will advise programs on how to onboard to and use existing Department of the Air Force software factories, such as Platform One, ODIN, and DAF CloudWorks, including the technical, security, governance, and operational steps that follow initial access. Working as an emerging technical authority with considerable latitude, you will guide complex integration decisions, improve common patterns and developer experience, and partner with government and contractor stakeholders to deliver reliable, accreditable software.RESPONSIBILTIES
Design and integrate software factory services spanning source control, CI/CD, artifact repositories, registries, security scanning, test automation, secrets, cloud infrastructure, and observability
Advise programs on factory selection and onboarding, including application architecture, access and identity, environment needs, interfaces, inherited and application-specific controls, release paths, and sustainment responsibilities
Lead technical integration of applications with established factories, including Platform One, ODIN, or DAF CloudWorks as applicable; resolve gaps between factory services and program delivery needs
Establish reusable CI/CD templates, infrastructure-as-code modules, container baselines, deployment patterns, and platform services that scale across application teams
Architect secure cloud and container environments, including networking, identity, secrets, storage, compute, Kubernetes, logging, and separation of environments
Embed automated testing, SAST/DAST/SCA, SBOMs, artifact provenance, vulnerability management, and evidence collection into delivery workflows in partnership with RMF/ATO stakeholders
Define application onboarding and self-service practices, documentation, templates, APIs, and support pathways that improve developer experience and reduce time to first deployment
Guide artifact promotion, configuration management, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and reliability practices across development, test, and production
Troubleshoot complex platform and toolchain issues, assess design tradeoffs, and implement changes that improve security, availability, performance, and maintainability
Mentor engineers and application teams, share architectural patterns and lessons learned, and coordinate technical decisions with customer and cybersecurity stakeholders
Measure platform adoption, onboard