{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e84e8aac2e665c6f88ec8ce4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e84e8aac2e665c6f88ec8ce4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e84e8aac2e665c6f88ec8ce4","title":"DevOps Engineer III","description":"ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.\r\nSUMMARY As a DevOps Engineer III at Firefly Aerospace, you will design, deploy, and operate the cloud and on-premises infrastructure that powers mission-critical spacecraft ground systems. This role is responsible for enabling reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available software platforms that support spacecraft operations, mission planning, telemetry processing, command execution, and enterprise ground segment services.\r\nYou will work closely with software engineers, mission operators, cybersecurity, IT, and systems engineering teams to deploy and maintain complex distributed systems spanning Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, streaming data platforms, databases, and CI/CD pipelines. As Firefly evolves toward enterprise, multi-tenant ground systems supporting multiple missions and customers, you will play a key role in designing infrastructure architectures that provide scalability, resiliency, observability, security, and operational excellence.\r\nRESPONSIBILITIES Design, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting spacecraft and launch vehicle ground software systems.\r\nDeploy and operate containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and related orchestration technologies.\r\nDesign and manage scalable environments for distributed microservice architectures supporting mission operations.\r\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and configuration management.\r\nBuild, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, GitOps methodologies, and related DevOps tooling.\r\nDeploy and scale enterprise data platforms including message brokers, stream processing frameworks, databases, and observability systems.\r\nDesign highly available and fault-tolerant architectures supporting mission-critical operations.\r\nAssist software development teams with application deployment, performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.\r\nDesign and implement cloud architectures within AWS utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and related technologies.\r\nDevelop infrastructure solutions supporting multi-mission and multi-tenant ground system deployments.\r\nCollaborate with cybersecurity and IT teams to implement secure authentication, authorization, auditing, and compliance controls.\r\nSupport capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, performance analysis, and system scalability assessments.\r\nImplement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.\r\nSupport software deployments across development, integration, test, staging, and production environments.\r\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness activities.\r\nContribute to architecture reviews and technology evaluations to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability of Firefly ground systems.\r\nQUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field.\r\n5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.\r\nExperience deploying and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm in production environments.\r\nExperience designing and supporting distributed microservice architectures.\r\nHands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Argo CD, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.\r\nExperience managing cloud infrastructure within AWS.\r\nStrong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.\r\nExperience administering Linux-based systems in production environments.\r\nKnowledge of networking fundamentals including load balancing, TLS, DNS, VPNs, routing, and firewall concepts.\r\nExperience implementing authentication and authorization solutions using IAM, SSO, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2, OIDC, or similar technologies.\r\nExperience with monitoring, logging, observability, and operational support practices.\r\nStrong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills across infrastructure, applications, and networking layers.\r\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.\r\nDESIRED MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.\r\nExperience supporting spacecraft, aerospace, defense, satellite, or other mission-critical operational systems.\r\nExperience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms supporting multiple applications and tenants.\r\nExperience deploying and scaling data streaming and event-driven platforms such as Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or similar technologies.\r\nExperience with time-series databases and telemetry-focused data architectures.\r\nExperience deploying and managing observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.\r\nFamiliarity with AWS GovCloud and regulated cloud environments.\r\nExperience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures.\r\nFamiliarity with cybersecurity frameworks including NIST 800-171, RMF, CMMC, or related compliance standards.\r\nActive security clearance.\r\nBENEFITS Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.\r\nTo conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be 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This role is responsible for enabling reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available software platforms that support spacecraft operations, mission planning, telemetry processing, command execution, and enterprise ground segment services.\r\nYou will work closely with software engineers, mission operators, cybersecurity, IT, and systems engineering teams to deploy and maintain complex distributed systems spanning Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, streaming data platforms, databases, and CI/CD pipelines. 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