Administrator - Systems Sr

BLUE ORIGIN•Seattle, WA

7d•$134,434 - $188,207

About The Position

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we’re developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies. Senior System Administrator As part of a hardworking team of technology professionals, you are invited to join us as a Sr. System Administrator. You will join the Applications team, the group that administers Jira, Confluence, and a portfolio of enterprise applications used by everyone at Blue Origin. When the entire company plans work and shares knowledge, it runs on the platforms this team owns. You will own the AWS infrastructure underneath those applications: compute, storage, networking, databases, patching, upgrades, and system health. This is a hands-on engineering role at the center of a team raising its operational maturity. You will bring rigor and repeatability to how infrastructure is provisioned and managed. AI is a core tool in how you work; you will use AI-assisted development to accelerate automation, troubleshooting, and documentation. Our tech stack at a glance: Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.) Terraform Atlassian (Jira, Confluence) Docker / Kubernetes Datadog Linux Python, Go AI/LLM tools (Claude, Codex, etc.) What makes our engineers successful? Deep technical command of AWS services and cloud architecture; you go deep and solve problems at the root A relentless focus on operational excellence; you automate ruthlessly and drive continuous improvement A bias toward Infrastructure-as-Code; you treat infrastructure as version-controlled, repeatable, and automated by default Strong ownership; you take responsibility for the availability, performance, and security of the systems you run A customer-first mindset and desire to deeply understand the needs of the teams you support The ability to work independently and set technical patterns others on the team follow A natural inclination to mentor and elevate the engineers around you The ability to influence leadership decisions by articulating technical trade-offs in business terms We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Significant experience architecting and operating application workloads on AWS in a production environment
Hands-on experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production systems
Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues across multiple layers of the stack
Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers and lead technical direction for a team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Nice To Haves

Experience building automation that eliminates operational toil and manual work
Experience using AI tools and AI-assisted development in an engineering or operations context
Experience operating the infrastructure behind enterprise applications such as Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
Track record of driving operational maturity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
Experience influencing technical strategy and articulating infrastructure trade-offs to leadership
History of driving cross-team adoption of shared infrastructure standards and platforms
Experience evaluating and selecting enterprise tooling for automation, observability, or security

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy, and operate the AWS infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, databases, security) that hosts Blue Origin's enterprise application workloads
Set the technical vision and standards for Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, security, reliability, and observability across the team's systems
Own patching, upgrades, system health, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for the infrastructure the company depends on
Write code and leverage AI-assisted development to automate operational tasks, reduce toil, and improve reliability
Evaluate and select strategic tools and technologies for automation, observability, and IaC
Establish and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices; define and meet SLAs/SLOs; participate in on-call rotation
Partner with cybersecurity teams to ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements
Represent the team across the organization: build coalitions to drive adoption of shared standards, influence leadership on infrastructure strategy, and coordinate cross-team projects
Mentor and coach engineers on the team, elevating organizational capabilities in infrastructure automation and reliability engineering