Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join True Anomaly, a company building innovative space technology, as a highly experienced DevOps Engineer. You will play a crucial role in the evolution of our complex spacecraft modeling and simulation software. This position offers ownership of challenging projects and the opportunity to significantly impact future conflict and the company's success. Responsibilities include establishing CI/CD processes, managing cloud-based solutions (primarily on Azure), and working with security teams to fortify infrastructure. World-class benefits are included, such as platinum healthcare, flexible work hours/location, competitive compensation, and a generous stock options package. The ideal candidate possesses extensive DevOps and cloud experience, a strong understanding of Kubernetes and Terraform, and relevant certifications. Experience in GovCloud environments and the space/defense industry is preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 6 years of DevOps and cloud experience
• Experience with any flavor of Linux
• Experiences with containers and container orchestration
• Experience in setting up and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines with tools such as GitHub Actions
• Experience setting up and administrating monitoring tools like with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc
• Production experience building and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, specifically AKS and Helm
• Strong understanding of terraform use cases and best practices
• Experience setting up production grade networking with hybrid clouds
• Intimate knowledge of certain protocols such as TCP, HTTP(S), etc
• Experience with any scripting language (Bash, Python, etc)
• Azure, AWS or GCP cloud certification
• Security and compliance understanding in a DevOps context

Responsibilities

• Establish and sustain continuous integration and deployment processes utilizing CI/CD tools to streamline and mature development workflows
• Oversee the deployment, scaling and management of applications using Kubernetes ensuring optimal architecture and functionality while also keeping cost as a factor
• Design and manage cloud-based solutions, primarily on Azure, while also being adept with other cloud platforms while upholding security standards and maturing cloud infrastructure
• Utilize Terraform for the provisioning and management of cloud resources through usage of modules and state management
• Work closely with security teams to fortify the security of our infrastructure and applying security principles that adhere to compliance standards. We embrace being proactive rather than being reactive
• Implement and oversee monitoring and logging solutions
• Assist software development teams by troubleshooting, optimizing performance and applying software deployment best practices ensuring mission success
• Deploy our application into challenging environments while working with the customer to ensure a smooth deployment representing True Anomaly with confidence
• Responsible for actively engaging in problem-solving, with a focus on practical involvement at both the design and debugging stages
• Enhancing and building Docker images to support a production flight environment securely
• Experimenting with the latest development tools to see if they meet the needs of our team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in GovCloud environments (Bonus for Azure)
• Experience in the Space, Defense, or similar industry
• Experience going through DoD compliance certifications like CMMC or FedRamp
• Understands the balance and tension between moving quickly at a startup and building a mature flight environment

Benefits

• Platinum healthcare
• Flexible work hours/location
• Highly competitive compensation
• Generous stock options package
• Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options
• PTO and paid holidays
• 401K
• Parental Leave