Director, Deployment Engineering

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

Director of Deployment Engineering overseeing deployment, integration, and management of cloud-native applications. Leading a high-performing team to ensure operational excellence in telecommunications environments.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeAnnapolis • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsLinuxVoIP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of Deployment Engineers and Technical Deployment Specialists.
Ensure successful implementation, configuration, validation, and production readiness of customer deployments.
Establish deployment metrics, KPIs, and reporting to measure deployment success, quality, and operational efficiency.
Define deployment engineering strategy, processes, standards, and best practices to improve deployment quality, efficiency, and predictability.
Oversee project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation; monitor progress and address any risks or issues that arise.
Establish deployment methodologies that support both traditional telecom and cloud-native network architectures.
Develop organizational capabilities to successfully drive rapid customer acceptance of platform upgrades, and large-scale production rollouts.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Program Management, and Support organizations to drive successful customer outcomes.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize deployment processes and enhance service delivery.
Support capture efforts with proposals, white papers, and reviewing cost estimates.
Travel as required for business needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ years of experience in software deployment, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering or deployment teams.
Experience deploying and operating containerized applications in production environments.
Knowledge of telecom technologies such as: 4G/5G Core, IMS, VoIP/SIP, OSS/BSS integrations, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs).
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and deployment automation.
Experience with Linux systems, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated success delivering complex customer-facing deployments.
Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Compliance with Comtech’s Drug-Free Workplace Program

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Hard Skills & Tools

software deploymentsystems engineeringDevOpsSREplatform engineeringcontainerized applicationsCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as Codedeployment automationLinux systems

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsstakeholder managementmentoringproject managementrisk managementcontinuous improvementteam scalingcustomer acceptance