Sr. DevOps (8-12 yrs)

Job summary

Designs, builds, automates, and operates secure, scalable AWS infrastructure for mission-critical aerospace workloads across development, test, and production environments. The role delivers Kubernetes platforms, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, cloud networking, federated identity, and DevSecOps controls, while improving observability and incident response. It also partners with engineering teams on self-service platform capabilities, technical standards, architecture, and mentoring.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of progressively responsible experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads in AWS.
• Experience delivering infrastructure with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
• Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines or comparable platforms.
• Production Kubernetes experience, including workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management, deployment strategies, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced AWS networking knowledge, including VPC design, routing, security groups, network ACLs, DNS, load balancing, private connectivity, and multi-account networking.
• Knowledge of SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, MFA, role-based access control, and least-privilege IAM.
• Proficiency in Python, including object-oriented programming, automated testing, API integrations, and maintainable tooling.
• Experience with Bash and boto3.
• Strong Linux and Git fundamentals.
• Effective communication of technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and deployment workflows.
• Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines for repeatable software and infrastructure delivery.
• Operate Kubernetes platforms, including workload deployment, Helm, scaling, cluster upgrades, access controls, and security hardening.
• Implement AWS networking architectures across multi-account environments.
• Implement federated identity and access management and apply least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Develop Python automation, internal tooling, API integrations, and operational utilities.
• Establish observability using metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, identity, Kubernetes, and CI/CD issues; support incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering teams on self-service capabilities, documentation, architecture reviews, platform roadmaps, and technical standards.
• Mentor engineers and improve infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability.

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