DevOps Engineer, Direct Access Services

Capella is at the forefront of making vital information about our world accessible in a timely manner. We’re leveraging proven technologies and building new capabilities to create a constellation of earth observation radar satellites that can collect information about any spot on the planet within an hour. 

At Capella you’ll work in a collaborative team environment, alongside smart people with a history of space mission success. No prior space experience is needed—we’re looking for people excited about tackling seemingly impossible challenges, learning new skills and concepts, and helping each other achieve success.

Our mission and our products are meant to understand the whole world and help everyone in it, regardless of race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger. We value diversity at Capella and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

About the Role 

Capella is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Direct Access Services team. Capella's Direct Access Services support a diverse set of customers around the globe with a variety of missions including collection planning, satellite downlink, SAR image processing, and more. You will be interacting daily with systems engineers, testers, project managers, hardware/infrastructure engineers, ground system software engineers, space operations engineers, and IT/security to build the processes and pipelines for Direct Access Services. 

You’re an independent problem-solver that seeks out ways to make our systems better, learns best-practices, and wants to help support our cloud-based services and infrastructure and enable them to run in an on-premises environment. You will help create infrastructure as code to build out on-premises hardware, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, automated deployment systems, and train other engineers in how to use and understand what you’re making. 

We touch a wide variety of technologies on a daily basis. Here's a list of some that you would likely end up interacting with at some point: Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Redis, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Grafana, Prometheus, and more. If you have a solid background in software architecture/engineering and are familiar with the tools we use, we’d like to meet you. This position is available in San Francisco, CA, Boulder, CO, or Remote.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automation pipelines for software development and deployment
• Manage and monitor infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
• Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability
• Implement and manage containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Configure and maintain database systems and related tools
• Implement and manage monitoring and logging solutions
• Work with security teams to implement and maintain security best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in DevOps

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps role
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms, such as AWS or Azure
• Experience deploying edge services in remote, on-premises environments
• Experience operating software in an air-gapped environment
• Proficiency in scripting languages, such as Python or Bash
• Experience with configuration management tools, such as Ansible or Puppet
• Knowledge of containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, such as Prometheus or ELK stack
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• US Citizen or US Permanent Resident

In addition to an opportunity to take part in an innovative and fast-growing business with a highly motivated and skilled team, we also take pride in taking care of our employees. Here are just a few ways that we show our appreciation: 

• • Medical/Dental/Vision
  • Disability and Life Insurance
  • 401k plan
  • Equity
  • Health Care, Dependent Care FSAs 
  • Commuter/Parking Flex Spending
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • In-office lunch program
  • Dog friendly work environment (SF)