Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer
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$ 155000 - 190000
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Job Description
At Vast our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations allowing longterm stays in space without the adverse effects of zerogravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is allin committed to executing our mission safely and on time.If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity come join us.
Vast is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer reporting to the Manager DevOps & Platform. This engineer will focus on supporting the Ground and Mission Operations Software organization. They will build the tooling procedures and systems that enable our software teams to deliver reliable and secure products with the speed and efficiency required to achieve our goal of launching the worlds first Artificial Gravity Space Station. This will be a fulltime exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
This will be a fulltimeexempt position located in ourLong Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and support CI/CD pipelines automating the build test and release of frontend and backend applications for the Ground Software Team
- Collaborate with Flight Software and Flight Software Test teams to streamline release management and integrated testing between physical and simulated flight assets and the supporting ground software
- Design and help operate a highly secure and stable cloud environment to support inflight missions with the suite of ground software services. Assist in the initial design of this environment as well as the migration of deployed services from development environments to the mission environment
- Aid the Ground Software Team in the acceleration of software development and delivery through tooling improvement optimized build systems and management of common platforms and services
- Drive the operational requirements and procedures for ground software services and take ownership of reliability engineering; ensure the proper tooling is in place for monitoring and maintaining continuous uptime
- Assist in the development and management of central DevOps services such as ArgoCD Artifactory an internal GitHub Actions marketplace security scanners and other custom tooling
- Work crossfunctionally with other teams at Vast including InfoSec and IT
- Help build the technical and cultural groundwork for a DevOps organization at Vast!
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in computer science computer engineering electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
- 3 years of experience in application development with Python Go or Javascript/Typescript
- Experience building robust CI/CD pipelines with preference towards GitHub Actions and AWS
- Extensive experience developing and managing solutions in the cloud using Terraform
- Deep experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; should be able to confidently administer configure and operate a multitenant Kubernetes cluster
- Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts both fundamental (OSI Model linux networking appliances etc. as well as cloud (VPCs transit gateways proper subnetting and routing etc.
- Ability to effectively triage priorities communicate initiatives and timelines and promote DevOps skills and culture within a fastpaced organization
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Expertise in building and testing distributed Golang applications
- Expertise in optimally configuring and maintaining Kafka clusters
- Experience driving security and code quality standards through automated scanners applied to the codebase (SAST)
- Experience managing and/or integrating with artifact registries such as Artifactory Nexus or other secure storage solutions
- Experience with observability instrumentation in distributed systems (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK stack etc.
Salary Range: California
$155000 $190000 USD
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls and therefore must either be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents (green card holders) and asylees and refugees with such status granted not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
