{"id":1302946,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ast-science-oss-automation-engineers","title":"OSS Automation Engineers","company":{"id":2057930,"name":"AST SpaceMobile","domain":"ast-science.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ast-science","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":90,"open_postings":203,"ghost_share":0.089,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":132,"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Riga, Latvia"],"countries":["LV"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Airflow","optional":false},{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS Step Functions","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":true},{"name":"Confluence","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"Grafana","optional":true},{"name":"gRPC","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Rest API","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-20T14:51:53Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-02T08:54:25Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":43,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":42},"description":"AST SpaceMobile is building the first and only global cellular broadband network in space to operate directly with standard, unmodified mobile devices based on our extensive IP and patent portfolio and designed for both commercial and government applications. Our engineers and space scientists are on a mission to eliminate the connectivity gaps faced by today’s five billion mobile subscribers and finally bring broadband to the billions who remain unconnected.\nPosition Overview\nWe are seeking an OSS Automation Engineer to join the Latvia Design Center as the primary owner of network and ground-segment lifecycle automation. This role builds and operates the production automation that executes real operational processes: zero-touch provisioning, site and service acceptance before commercial traffic is enabled, in-service configuration management and drift detection, and fault/alarm handling. A defining characteristic of this role is bridging with automation operational domains that today depend on manual coordination between teams and systems.\nKey Responsibilities:\nBuild, develop and deploy AST’s internal automation processes within AST OSS platform - provisioning automation, configuration management, fault & alarm handling automation, cross domain orchestration and integration\nTranslate architectural specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and functional & non-functional requirements into clean, well-tested, production-ready code\nWrite modular, maintainable software following team coding standards, with appropriate documentation and code comments\nImplement and maintain integration tests, regression suites, and performance benchmarks for the developed software components\nParticipate in design and code reviews, providing and receiving constructive technical feedback\nSupport system-level integration testing ensuring delivered software meets acceptance criteria\nWork within the team’s agile delivery process: contribute to sprint planning, maintain backlog hygiene, and deliver consistently against milestone commitments\nMaintain technical documentation: component specifications, API contracts, test results, and runbooks\nEngage with other internal teams to clarify requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure delivered software meets operational needs\nQualifications\nEducation:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related field - or equivalent professional experience.\nExperience:\nA minimum of 3+ years of professional experience in network or business process automation, or a combined network/software engineering role in live-network operational environment.\nProven experience building production automation/orchestration workflows that execute real operational processes, not just test or CI/CD automation\nHands-on experience with at least one of Temporal, Apache Airflow, or AWS Step Functions for sequencing multi-step, stateful, or long-running workflows\nStrong proficiency in Python or Go for automation and integration logic\nExperience with network configuration automation tooling (e.g. Ansible, Netmiko/NAPALM, or vendor-specific APIs)\nWorking knowledge of event-driven integration via Kafka/Protobuf\nWorking knowledge of AWS fundamentals (compute, networking, VPN/Transit Gateway, managed streaming)\nUnderstanding of FCAPS concepts and alarm/fault management models (e.g. ITU-T X.733)\nPractical experience instrumenting automation with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or equivalent\nEnglish proficiency at B2 level or above; able to collaborate effectively with peers and architects in a globally distributed team\nSoft Skills:\nBridge-builder mindset - comfortable being the person who turns a process that spans three teams' systems into a single governed pipeline\nHigh ownership - takes end-to-end accountability for automation from design through live operation, including what happens when it fails\nSound judgment on automation boundaries - knows which operational decisions genuinely need a human and which don’t, rather than automating everything indiscriminately\nRigorous but pragmatic - applies the same discipline to acceptance/go-live automation as to a live network incident, since both carry real consequences\nTechnology Stack:\nAWS Step Functions, Temporal, Apache Airflow\nPython or Go\nAnsible, Netmiko/NAPALM, vendor-specific network APIs\nREST, gRPC, TMF Open APIs\nKafka/Protobuf (AWS MSK)\nOpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana\nAWS (EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, MSK, VPN/Transit Gateway)\nGit, Azure DevOps CI\nJira, Confluence\nMarkdown, Mermaid, PlantUML\nPhysical Requirements\nAbility to work in a standard office or remote home-office environment and use a computer for extended periods\nAbility to participate in occasional after-hours incident response actions\nThis job description may not be inclusive to the duties and responsibilities listed. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time or the scope of the job may change as needed by business demands. \nAST SpaceMobile is an Equal Opportunity, at will Employer; employment is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5389,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Upper-Intermediate (B2)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Telecommunications"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T12:21:47Z"}],"liveness":{"score":65,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.814,"p_room":0.8,"age_days":42,"expected_fill_days":132,"reasons":["conf:11","velocity","win:early","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ast-science-oss-automation-engineers","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ast-science-oss-automation-engineers.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T00:52:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":601,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4399,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}