Cloud and DevOPs Engineer

The team at Advanced Space is leading humanity back to the Moon and pioneering innovative solutions in the space industry. Based in Westminster Colorado this incredible team is looking for a skilled and experienced Cloud and DevOps Engineer. Responsibilities include architecting cloud-based DevOps solutions selecting appropriate toolsets and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Solid skills in cloud-based solution architecture networking AWS cloud administration Linux Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD Pipelines are Space is a rapidly growing privately held business that incorporates our core values in all that we do. Advanced Space exists to support the sustainable exploration development and settlement of space and operates with four core values: We are customer obsessed and mission focused; when we see it we solve it; we are one team motivated by our vision; and we bring technical excellence and inexhaustible curiosity.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Partner with development and operations teams to gather requirements and architect scalable secure and maintainable cloud and DevOps solutions.
• Evaluate and select modern toolsets based on industry best practices functionality support security and total cost of ownership.
• Own the enhancement automation and ongoing maintenance of CI/CD and software lifecycle infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex system and application-level issues across diverse cloud-native and containerized environments.
• Support the development and deployment of high-performance computing and data engineering solutions.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters manage deployments using YAML and Helm.
• Implement and maintain configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible).
• Design and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.
• Lead implementation of secure AWS environments using native security tools and IaC-driven deployments (IAM SCPs permission sets).
• Mentor junior engineers contribute to peer reviews and share best practices across the engineering team.

Required Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or a related technical field.
• 5-8 years of relevant professional experience.
• 5 years in systems network or cloud administration roles.
• 5 years hands-on experience designing and deploying AWS-based DevOps solutions (Ansible Terraform Docker Kubernetes).
• Expert-level Linux administration.
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting.
• Strong AWS experience (IAM VPC EC2 S3 Lambda CloudWatch Systems Manager etc.).
• Demonstrated experience managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or GitHub (GitLab preferred).
• Deep knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience in administering databases like MongoDB PostgreSQL or Neo4j.
• Skilled in observability and monitoring (e.g. CloudWatch Elasticsearch).
• Strong git proficiency (branching workflows version control).
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles and security best practices in cloud environments.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with data engineering or backend support for HPC and ML workloads.
• Experience with AWS Organizations Service Catalog and governance/security configurations.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) systems and APIs.
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g. Grafana Prometheus).
• Proficiency in AWS CDK or Python Boto3 SDK.
• Experience with:
• GitLab architecture and restructuring
• Terraform for AWS infrastructure automation
• CI/CD pipeline optimization and maintenance
• Cloud-native artifact repositories (e.g. Artifactory)
• Workflow/project management tools (Jira WRIKE Redmine)

Compensation and Benefits:

• Base Salary Range $110000-$130000 based on role employee experience and location
• Signing bonus
• Quarterly Performance bonuses
• Company provided health insurance and 401K plan upon eligibility
• Unlimited vacation time and extensive flexibility
• Relocation Assistance

Eligibility Requirements

• Ability to work in the Westminster CO office 3-5 days/week.
• Applicants must be a US Citizen.
• Must have a Security Clearance: Active e.g. Secret/Top Secret/TS/SCI security clearance required
• Advanced Space values the power of collaboration and in-person interactions. As such our team enjoys the option of hybrid work with at least three days a week in person.

About the company:

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration development and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial civil and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization mission design mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise flight-demonstrated applications and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL.

These competencies are leveraged by a dynamic flexible and agile team with cross domain knowledge. We have a small but growing team that works collaboratively across projects. We provide flexibility and an opportunity for passionate employees to contribute directly to meaningful projects. Trusted to take on the challenge the team at Advanced Space is Delivering Innovation to Orbit to the Moon Mars and beyond.

Advanced Space LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Advanced Space LLC recruits employs trains compensates and promotes regardless of race religion color national origin sex disability age veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law.