DevOps Engineer Sr

BLUE ORIGIN • Seattle, WA

21h

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 supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable. We are a dynamic team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. As a part of a small, cross-functional team responsible for mission operation IT and communications infrastructure, you'll be instrumental in developing infrastructure to power Blue Origin's mission systems. This is a hands-on position focused on creating IaC for critical IT systems directly supporting launch and space based systems. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, ambition, and highs standards to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work on rewarding problems and interesting technologies. You will bring a software engineering approach to ensuring our systems are operational and scalable. You will implement the infrastructure that allows for rapid development and iteration of software throughout the company, including distributed systems and embedded software on-board our rockets and space vehicles. You will make decisions and implement systems that affect the capabilities of thousands of rocket scientists and engineers at Blue Origin and beyond. Our tech stack at glance: Amazon Web Services Kubernetes and Docker Datadog Splunk Gitlab VMware vSphere Linux Ansible Terraform Bash, Powershell Go, C#, and Python What makes our SRE’s successful? Technical breadth and depth with a strong understanding of emerging trends and technologies A strong bias for automating everything and reducing toil Humility and the enthusiasm to learn unfamiliar domains A strong “customer first” personality and desire to be a domain expert Background in both on-prem and cloud infrastructure deployments using CI/CD IaC tools Deep understanding of networking principles Emphasis on security and reliability

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g. physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices
• Interest in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Familiarity with “infrastructure as code” and technologies used to achieve this
• Experience working with build, deployment or release pipelines
• Knowledge of software defined networking (VPC, Subnets, Firewalls, VPNs, etc.)
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (such as Docker) and orchestration platforms (such as Kubernetes)
• Experience in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C#, Scripting languages (bash, Powershell)

Nice To Haves

• Experience with relational or non-relational databases, including configuring, deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of software – from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
• Support services before they go to production through activities such as system design, consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, scaling and launch reviews.
• Maintain software once it is live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Configure, deploy, scale, and administer open source and commercial software
• Understand and utilize existing APIs or develop new ones to solve automation gaps
• Identify bottlenecks in existing processes and develop strategies to stream line workflows between developers and operations

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level