Job Description
The role involves developing, deploying, and managing container-based applications and infrastructure in a secure, high-performance environment, primarily focusing on DevOps practices, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies to support real-time satellite data monitoring for defense intelligence customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the container-based application lifecycle, including bi-weekly releases and CI/CD pipelines for GMS.
- Manage deployments on customer-isolated Kubernetes clusters with stateful applications and persistent storage.
- Ensure high availability and performance by monitoring systems, responding to alerts, and participating in on-call rotations.
- Debug and resolve complex issues surfaced by customers or internal monitoring.
- Own authentication for GMS resources and provide full-stack technical support to customer-facing teams.
- Manage terraform deployments for data pipelines.
Requirements
- 10 years of software engineering experience with a focus on infrastructure or DevOps, specifically deploying and managing containers.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and stateful applications, persistent storage, and node pool isolation in Kubernetes.
- Track record of owning and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing infrastructure via Makefiles and manifests.
- Practical knowledge of secrets management and security best practices within a cloud-native environment.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and participating in blameless postmortems.
- Ability to monitor complex distributed systems with established SLAs and SLOs and a commitment to meeting strict performance SLOs and contractual obligations.
- A high degree of independence and a sense of ownership over the full deployment lifecycle.
- Experience deploying in secured customer environments.
- Willingness to collaborate across multiple time zones and travel quarterly for team alignment.
- Experience managing data pipelines, particularly with dbt.
Benefits & Perks
Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off
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