Senior System Development Engineer

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is a multi-mission science and flight operations center for NASA’s flagship observatories on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Senior System Development Engineer is an expert in identifying the infrastructure required for customer needs and ensuring that the platforms remain available at all times. They possess excellent skills in infrastructure and configuration management and are experienced in automating tasks using Terraform and Ansible. Proficiency in Python is highly preferred, although knowledge of other programming languages is also acceptable. They are skilled in Kubernetes administration and development and have a good understanding of DevOps practices. This role entails supporting internal infrastructure and development teams with deployments, as well as developing internal tools for self-service delivery.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build, implement, monitor, automate, and support SUSE Rancher RKE2.
• Build, deploy, and manage IaC with automation for infrastructure leveraging CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps tools.
• Writing and maintaining code in languages such as Python with unit tests in a complex system component utilizing SDLC
• Build coding standardizations and automate processes for the organization.
• Advocates improvements for resources, tags, governance, and optimization.
• Advocates for containerization and automation, configuration, and fine-tuning infrastructure systems.
• Managing existing Kubernetes and Docker environments.
• Communicate with the Network and Security team to implement recommended baselines and fixes as needed for compute workloads on the virtualized environments.
• Translating function and technical requirements into detailed documentation and design

Required skills and experience: 

• Strong Linux experience
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with building software applications, SDLC, and CI/CD
• Experience with containerization and container orchestration is required.
• Minimum three years of experience as a Software Developer, System Development Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or System Administrator.
• Hands-on infrastructure management experience with Terraform.
• Writing and maintaining a software code base
• Prior work experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Experience writing code in Python

Preferred Experience:

• Prior work experience with GitOps practices
• Prior work experience with GitLab and GitLab CI
• Prior work experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Robusta
• Prior work experience with Metal LB, Cluster Autoscaler, and Valro
• Prior work experience with Ansible and writing Helm Charts and Operator patterns
• Experience writing code in JavaScript

Substitution of additional relevant education or experience for stated qualifications will be considered.

Salary range is $110k to $160k. Compensation is commensurate with education, skills and experience.

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Applications received by 06/06/2024 will receive full consideration. Applications received after this date will be considered until the position is filled.  

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 STScI offers a flexible and welcoming workspace for all. STScI embraces the diversity of our staff as a strategic priority in creating a first-rate community. We strongly encourage women, ethnic minorities, veterans, and disabled individuals to apply for these opportunities. Veterans, disabled individuals, or wounded warriors needing assistance with the employment process can contact us at careers@stsci.edu EOE/AA/M/F/D/V.

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