{"id":931651,"url":"https://alion.io/job/blue-origin-infrastructure-devops-software-engineer-iii","title":"Infrastructure DevOps Software Engineer III","company":{"id":3698,"name":"Blue Origin","domain":"blueorigin.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/blueorigin","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":174,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.868,"repost_share":0.006,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Seattle, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":164652,"max":230512,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":230512},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon CloudWatch","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"DNS","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Jenkins","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Pulumi","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"SRE","optional":false},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"Backstage","optional":true},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"Checkov","optional":true},{"name":"CIS Benchmarks","optional":true},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"GitOps","optional":true},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault","optional":true},{"name":"Helm","optional":true},{"name":"Kustomize","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":true},{"name":"NIST 800-53","optional":true},{"name":"SBOM","optional":true},{"name":"tfsec","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-14","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T12:22:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"Application close date:\nApplications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!\nThis role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.As part of a small team, you will help build the internal cloud platform that Engines software and data teams build on every day. You will own significant components of that platform - reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, golden paths, Kubernetes services, and self-service automation - and you will support multiple internal customer teams running on shared environments with differing security, scale, and lifecycle needs. This hands-on position requires demonstrated depth authoring reusable IaC, operating production Kubernetes at scale, and applying site reliability engineering practices to systems you did not write. We operate with a strong bias for automation and an AI-first approach to development. Together, our teams deliver the platform and automation that allow high-velocity development teams to ship safely and often.\nWe are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!\nResponsibilities:\nAs a Platform DevSecOps Engineer III, you will own platform components from design through verification and ongoing operation, working with minimal oversight and general guidance on new assignments. You will independently develop solutions to problems of diverse scope, use technical judgment to select the methods and technologies best suited to the solution while balancing risk, lead root cause analysis on major-scope production issues, and own technical reviews and documentation for your projects. You will provide input to schedule, budget, and milestones, provide technical feedback that improves the solutions of other engineers, and participate in company-wide tool development and process improvement efforts. Specific responsibilities include:\nDesign, build, and own reusable infrastructure-as-code modules in Pulumi and Terraform, treating them as versioned products with clear interfaces, defaults, tests, documentation, and deprecation paths.\nBuild and maintain golden paths and paved-road templates that let development teams provision compliant, production-ready infrastructure without deep cloud expertise.\nOwn the design and operation of shared AWS platform services, including account and network topology, identity and access patterns, and environment promotion strategy.\nDesign and operate production Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EKS, including cluster architecture, networking, autoscaling, upgrade strategy, multi-tenancy, and resource governance.\nBuild platform capabilities that support microservice architectures, including service scaffolding, ingress and service discovery, secrets delivery, and production readiness standards.\nApply a strong bias for automation, eliminating manual and repetitive operational work through code, tooling, and self-service capabilities.\nUse AI coding assistants and agentic development tooling as a routine part of the development workflow to accelerate module development, test generation, refactoring, and documentation.\nBuild AI-assisted automation into platform operations, such as automated triage, log and alert summarization, remediation suggestions, and change impact analysis.\nEstablish and follow responsible practices for AI-assisted development, including human review, test coverage, secure handling of proprietary and export-controlled information, and validation of generated code and configuration.\nDesign and build CI/CD pipelines and deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, progressive rollout, automated rollback) that enable teams to deploy safely and frequently.\nEstablish and improve DevSecOps practices across the platform lifecycle, including automated security scanning, policy-as-code, secrets management, image hardening, IAM least-privilege design, and vulnerability and patch remediation workflows.\nOwn observability for platform infrastructure and microservices, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting strategy, and drive alert quality to reduce noise and mean time to detection.\nDefine and instrument SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with customer teams, and drive reliability improvements against them.\nLead incident response and postmortems, perform root cause analysis on major-scope production failures, and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.\nDefine and execute performance, capacity, scalability, resiliency, and cloud cost optimization efforts across the platform.\nDefine and implement security and compliance controls in accordance with Blue Origin standards and export control (ITAR/EAR) requirements.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nB.S. degree or higher in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, information systems, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or related field.\n5+ years of hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating software or cloud infrastructure.\nDemonstrated experience as a platform engineer, DevOps/DevSecOps engineer, site reliability engineer, or cloud infrastructure engineer, including ownership of production systems.\nDemonstrated experience building and maintaining reusable, versioned infrastructure-as-code modules consumed by other teams, including Pulumi and Terraform.\nDeep hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, EKS, S3, VPC and networking, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Secrets Manager or Parameter Store.\nDemonstrated experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, networking, autoscaling, and troubleshooting.\nExperience supporting multiple internal customer teams or tenants on shared infrastructure, including multi-account or multi-tenant patterns, isolation, and guardrails.\nExperience with Docker / containers, container image build pipelines, registries, and image hardening.\nExperience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline creation, editing, and deployment automation (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD).\nDemonstrated bias for automation, with a track record of replacing manual operational work with code and self-service tooling.\nHands-on experience using AI coding assistants or agentic development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Amazon Q) as part of a professional development workflow.\nExperience supporting microservice architectures and high-velocity development teams in production.\nExperience with site reliability engineering practices, including SLI/SLO definition, capacity planning, incident response, and toil reduction through automation.\nExperience with Linux internals including commands and shell scripting.\nExperience with TypeScript and/or Python and at least one additional language (e.g., Go, TypeScript, Java, C++).\nExperience with monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Elastic Stack).\nSolid knowledge of networking fundamentals including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, TLS, and cloud network segmentation.\nWorking knowledge of databases and SQL including NoSQL.\nSolid knowledge of cloud security best practices, identity and access management, and secure software delivery.\nExperience participating in on-call support, leading incident response, and performing root cause analysis.\nAbility to independently determine appropriate methods and approaches on new problems with general guidance.\nAbility to learn fast, multitask and drive tasks to completion.\nAbility to present technical concepts and recommendations to peers, customers, and leadership.\nAbility to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.\nMust have can do attitude and be problem solver.\nMust be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience building an internal developer platform, developer portal, or golden path program (e.g., Backstage, Port, or equivalent).\nExperience with Kubernetes platform extension patterns, including custom controllers, operators, or CRDs.\nExperience with GitOps workflows and tooling (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).\nExperience with Helm, Kustomize, or similar Kubernetes packaging and configuration management tools.\nExperience testing infrastructure code (e.g., Pulumi unit/integration tests, Terratest, contract or compliance testing of modules).\nExperience with policy-as-code, drift detection, and compliance scanning (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Sentinel, Checkov, tfsec).\nExperience with multi-account AWS strategy, landing zones, AWS Organizations, and Control Tower.\nExperience building AI or LLM-based automation for operations, such as automated triage, summarization, or remediation workflows.\nExperience with MCP servers, agent frameworks, or building internal tooling that exposes platform capabilities to AI agents.\nExperience with secure DevSecOps tooling (SAST/DAST, SBOM, container and dependency vulnerability scanning) and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53/171, CIS Benchmarks).\nExperience with secrets management tooling (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager) and workload identity federation.\nExperience with event-driven or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Amazon MSK).\nExperience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices, including tenant-level cost attribution.\nExperience with chaos engineering, disaster recovery, or resiliency testing.\nExperience establishing platform standards or golden paths adopted across multiple development teams.\nExperience in aerospace, propulsion, manufacturing, or other high-reliability engineering environments.\nRelevant certifications (e.g., AWS 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Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nExport Control Regulations\nApplicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.\nBackground Check\nRequired for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check\nRequired for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation\nRequired for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to ad...","description_format":"text","description_chars":14933,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave","Professional development","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace","Satellite Manufacturing","Ground Systems","Space Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-15T12:13:46Z"}],"liveness":{"score":57,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.571,"p_room":1,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":230512,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/blue-origin-infrastructure-devops-software-engineer-iii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/blue-origin-infrastructure-devops-software-engineer-iii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T17:44:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}