DevOps Engineer (Media Streaming Infrastructure) in Rekrutingoviy centr SIL BEZPILOTNIH SISTEM

The 429th separate regiment of unmanned systems "Achilles" performs combat missions in the hottest areas of the front. The unit was created on the basis of the BpAK shock battalion, which was part of the 92nd OSHBr. In 2023-2024, Achilles destroyed and damaged 19,853 legitimate enemy military targets. In connection with significant performance indicators, in January 2025 the battalion was expanded into the 429th separate regiment of unmanned systems "Achilles" within the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The main tasks of the unit are aerial reconnaissance, fire destruction of enemy forces and means with the help of drones.

The R&D center opens positions for engineers who are ready to work on full-cycle projects in the direction of UAVs/robotics: electronics, software, testing and implementation of solutions.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Requirements

• 1+ year of hands-on DevOps / System Administration experience (commercial or strong proprietary projects).
• Knowledge of Linux administration: services, logs, networks, troubleshooting.
• Experience with Docker (build, run, images, registries) and basic understanding of CI/CD.
• Basic understanding TCP/UDP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, routing.
• Knowledge of monitoring basics: logs/metrics/alerts.
• Technical English at Intermediate level.

Desired requirements

• 3+ years of production infrastructure support with uptime/latency requirements (uptime/latency) deployments.
• Experience in monitoring: centralized logs + metrics + traces.
• Network debugging for media: loss/jitter, MTU issues, NAT traversal, QoS basics, latency budgeting.
• Experience in running streaming stacks and knowledge of protocols: RTSP, RTP/RTCP, SRT, WebRTC will be an advantage.
• Experience with media servers/components: GStreamer, FFmpeg-based pipeline, MediaMTX would be an advantage.
• Experience with multi-WAN/VPN environments (WireGuard/Tailscale/NetBird) for secure data transfer would be an advantage.
• Experience with MikroTik RouterOS would be an advantage.

CONDITIONS

• mobilization until the end of martial law or service under a contract
• possibility of transferring active military personnel with the consent of the immediate commander
• possibility of service for candidates who, according to the conclusion of the VLK, are suitable for service in military support units, TCC and SP, VVNIZ, educational centers, etc.
• possibility of service for candidates with the status SZCH
• financial support in accordance with the norms of current legislation
• work in a team of motivated servicemen focused on results and development;
• participation in the development of a new type of army - proactive, professional and adequate to modern challenges.

You can find more information about the unit at the link: https://achilles.army/