Senior DevOps Engineer I (TS/SCI)
About The Position
Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) challenges for Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. Building on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation from Geost, Optical Systems delivers solutions to the warfighter for responsive, scalable sensing solutions across all orbital domains. As a Senior DevOps Engineer I based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will have the opportunity to support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) in a software development operation with AWS cloud-based architecture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering or equivalent discipline with 5-8 years of experience
- Hands-on experience in cloud-based devops environments
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
- Experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments
- Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.)
- Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory
- Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
- Proficiency in Linux system administration
- Ability to design, enable, and deliver scalable and automated strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible and Terraform
- Experience supporting cloud network resources such as VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, Security groups, routing tables, etc.
- Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash
- CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of)
- Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations
- Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis
- Expertise in the Git version control system command line
- Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills
Responsibilities
- Support AWS development, test, and production environments
- Collaborate with project leads and team members
- Align with Security and IT for policy assurance
- Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs
- Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers
- Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g. containers)
- Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities
- Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
- Perform other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
