Director, Deployment Engineering

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Director, Deployment Engineering

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Senior Vice President, Engineering

Revision Date: 5/27/2026

FLSA: Exempt

Location: Annapolis, MD Preferred

Level: M4

Rate of Pay: $175,000 -$215,000 USD

Company Overview:

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is a leading global technology company providing terrestrial and wireless network solutions, next-generation 9-1-1 emergency services, satellite and space communications technologies, and cloud-native capabilities to commercial and government customers around the world. Our unique culture of innovation and employee empowerment unleashes a relentless passion for customer success. With multiple facilities located in technology corridors throughout the United States and around the world, Comtech leverages our global presence, technology leadership, and decades of experience to create the world’s most innovative communications solutions. For more information, please visit

Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced and results-oriented Director of Deployment Engineering to lead a team responsible for the successful deployment, integration, and lifecycle management of cloud-native applications within complex telecommunications environments. This leader will oversee deployment engineering teams that implement and support Kubernetes-based solutions across customer networks, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President of Engineering, the ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise in cloud-native platforms, telecom infrastructure, and DevOps practices with proven leadership experience managing geographically distributed engineering teams and customer-facing deployments.

Responsibilities:

• 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:

• 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.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

This position requires compliance with Comtech’s Drug-Free Workplace Program. Candidates must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire. Employees may be subject to random, reasonable suspicion, and post-incident testing. Illegal drug use — including marijuana, regardless of state law — is disqualifying under federal adjudicative guidelines and DoD DFARS requirements.

The pay range reflects the expected base salary for this position. Final compensation will be based on role, level, skills, experience, and geographic location.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.