DevOps Engineer

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

As an end-to-end space transportation company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the surface of the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

SUMMARY

We are building rockets, moon landers and space-grade parts over here, yet none of this happens without reliable tools, innovative thinking, and collaboration. Firefly Aerospace is tackling problems in the “new space” market, which means we have opportunities to extract the best processes from “heritage space” development and combine that with today’s available technology to provide seamless solutions for these challenges.

We are currently searching for a Senior DevOps Engineer to think critically about software development operations and find ways to implement automation throughout our organization. You will work closely with the Engineering Applications development team to push for continuous integration and deployment strategies. If you are a self-starter who is interested in supporting the systems to reduce advanced Launch Vehicle development costs in a fast-paced startup environment, this job is for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Automate management and monitoring systems to maintain our software application reliability and performance.
• Architect and build a modern, robust IaC framwork in a hybrid environment.
• Introduce continuous improvements to our build and release processes and tooling.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Work in a product development process that is primarily Agile/Scrum.
• Support development of KPI’s to evaluate metrics for database performance.
• Develop technical, functional documentation, and user guides complying with audit requirements.
• Respond to support requests for bugs & issues reported.
• Support training development for all levels of the organization as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:

• 6+ years of prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science/Engineering, or a related discipline (4+ years direct industry experience may be substituted).
• Experience deploying & maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and docker containers.
• Experience with scripting modern languages such as python, node,etc
• 6+ years of git and terraform experience.
• 6+ years of AWS experience.
• 6+ years of building CI/CD pipelines.
• Good interpersonal skills with experience interfacing effectively between business groups and IT teams.
• Ability to document and communicate requirements.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a “make it happen” attitude.
• Knowledge of best engineering practices in agile software development: architectural paradigms, code reviews, branching, task management, documentation, and testing.
• On-premise/Cloud hybrid environment experience
• Experience building docker images & maintaining an image repository such harbor repository.

Desired Requirements:

• Experience deploying K8s and containers on local hardware (on-premise)
• Ability to plan and develop sustainable app/web-server environments.
• Evaluate development/infrastructure tools and generate value proposition report.
• Experience with infrastructure automations tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, etc.
• Knowledgeable in version controlling and managing system/application configurations.

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on 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.