DevOps Engineer III

Job Description

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch land and operate in space anywhere anytime As the partner of choice for critical space missions Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24 hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing Our launch vehicles lunar landers and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond Headquartered in north Austin Texas Firefly is looking for passionate hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space SUMMARY As a DevOps Engineer III at Firefly Aerospace you will design deploy and operate the cloud and on premises infrastructure that powers mission critical spacecraft ground systems This role is responsible for enabling reliable scalable secure and highly available software platforms that support spacecraft operations mission planning telemetry processing command execution and enterprise ground segment services You will work closely with software engineers mission operators cybersecurity IT and systems engineering teams to deploy and maintain complex distributed systems spanning Kubernetes clusters cloud infrastructure streaming data platforms databases and CICD pipelines As Firefly evolves toward enterprise multi tenant ground systems supporting multiple missions and customers you will play a key role in designing infrastructure architectures that provide scalability resiliency observability security and operational excellence RESPONSIBILITIES Design deploy and maintain cloud and on premises infrastructure supporting spacecraft and launch vehicle ground software systemsDeploy and operate containerized applications using Kubernetes Docker and related orchestration technologiesDesign and manage scalable environments for distributed microservice architectures supporting mission operationsDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code IaC solutions for provisioning and configuration managementBuild maintain and optimize CICD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins Argo CD GitOps methodologies and related DevOps toolingDeploy and scale enterprise data platforms including message brokers stream processing frameworks databases and observability systemsDesign highly available and fault tolerant architectures supporting mission critical operationsAssist software development teams with application deployment performance optimization monitoring and troubleshootingDesign and implement cloud architectures within AWS utilizing services such as EKS EC2 IAM Lambda RDS S3 CloudWatch and related technologiesDevelop infrastructure solutions supporting multi mission and multi tenant ground system deploymentsCollaborate with cybersecurity and IT teams to implement secure authentication authorization auditing and compliance controlsSupport capacity planning infrastructure sizing performance analysis and system scalability assessmentsImplement and maintain observability solutions including metrics logging tracing alerting and operational dashboardsSupport software deployments across development integration test staging and production environmentsParticipate in incident response root cause analysis and operational readiness activitiesContribute to architecture reviews and technology evaluations to improve reliability scalability and maintainability of Firefly ground systems QUALIFICATIONS Required BS in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology or related technical field5 years of experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering SRE Platform Engineering or related infrastructure rolesExperience deploying and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm in production environmentsExperience designing and supporting distributed microservice architecturesHands on experience building and maintaining CICD pipelines using Jenkins Argo CD GitLab CI GitHub Actions or similar toolsExperience managing cloud infrastructure within AWSStrong understanding of Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or similar platformsExperience administering Linux based systems in production environmentsKnowledge of networking fundamentals including load balancing TLS DNS VPNs routing and firewall conceptsExperience implementing authentication and authorization solutions using IAM SSO LDAP Active Directory OAuth2 OIDC or similar technologiesExperience with monitoring logging observability and operational support practicesStrong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills across infrastructure applications and networking layersAbility to obtain and maintain a US security clearanceDesired MS in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or related fieldExperience supporting spacecraft aerospace defense satellite or other mission critical operational systemsExperience operating large scale Kubernetes platforms supporting multiple applications and tenantsExperience deploying and scaling data streaming and event driven platforms such as Apache Pulsar Apache Kafka Apache Flink or similar technologiesExperience with time series databases and telemetry focused data architecturesExperience deploying and managing observability platforms such as Grafana Prometheus or similar toolsFamiliarity with AWS GovCloud and regulated cloud environmentsExperience implementing high availability disaster recovery and business continuity architecturesFamiliarity with cybersecurity frameworks including NIST 800 171 RMF CMMC or related compliance standardsActive security clearanceFirefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees including generous health dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles parental leave educational reimbursement short term disability and flexible PTO options To conform to US Government space technology export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ITAR you must be a US citizen lawful permanent resident of the US protected individual as defined by 8 USC 1324ba3 or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the US Department of State Firefly Aerospace Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race color religion gender national originethnicity veteran status disability status age sexual orientation gender identity marital status mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status