DevOps Engineer

Location: Chantilly, VA

Eligibility: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph clearance.

Job Description:

We are looking for a seasoned DevOps Engineer to join a large team that is providing lifecycle support for a scalable NextGen space resiliency / flight safety program. In this role, you will work at the core of ground system architectures that enable space domain awareness operations, data flow, and real-time decision-making, where precision, reliability, and performance are essential. You will lead efforts to modernize and enhance existing architectures by designing automation, deployment pipelines, and resilient infrastructure that improve the performance and reliability of mission systems. Your work will play a direct role in shaping how ground systems evolve to address emerging challenges across the space domain.

Requirements/Must Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent field and 10 years of revelvant experience
• TS/SCI security clearance w/ CI Poly
• Background with development of tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and pushing releases across environments
• Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions, including Kubernetes or Docker
• Experience developing and maintaining CSP tools such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle (AWS highly preferred)
• Experience developing, managing, and securing containers
• Experience in working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and creating solutions to complex problems within a collaborative team environment

Bonus Skills

• Experience operating within an Agile environment
• Experience triaging and resolving issues related to both open source and commercial tools in public cloud environments
• Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization
• Ability to work with automated testing tools to perform testing and maintenance
• Jenkins, Ruby, ArgoCD, BitBucket, GitLab
• Helm, Helm Charts, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Background in any of the following areas: Orbital Dynamics, Astrodynamics, Aerospace Engineering, Flight Safety, Space Domain Awareness, Satellite Conjunction Analysis, or SAR phenomenology