Rocket Lab Corporation-posted about 18 hours ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Onsite • Chantilly, VA
1,001-5,000 employees

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 Manager DevOps Engineering based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will be leading a team of hard-working and mission-focused engineers in architecting and deploying cloud environments, in implementing software process and CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining both enterprise tools and software system security. To be successful in this role, you must be enthusiastic about the role of DevOps in an organization and be a cross functional problem solver for the business. You’ll be responsible for setting the tone, driving productivity, and ensuring deadlines and targets are consistently met.

  • Lead a team of engineers across business level functions – enterprise tools, finance tools, engineering development process, software development integration and deployment
  • Drive best practices for AWS Cloud based architecture and development and production environments
  • Collaborate with project leads and team members to meet mission objectives
  • Work directly 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)
  • Lead Agile sprints and associated activities
  • Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
  • Perform other duties as assigned
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
  • Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance
  • 1-3 years of team leadership or management experience
  • 10+ years of hands-on 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)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
  • 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 – Professional
  • Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills
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