Sr. DevOps (8-12 yrs)
Advanced Space5 days ago
Westminster, CO, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$140k - $182k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure for mission-critical aerospace workloads.
- Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and deployment workflows using Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or comparable tools.
- Build and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines for repeatable software and infrastructure delivery.
- Operate Kubernetes platforms, preferably Amazon EKS, including workload deployment, Helm, scaling, cluster upgrades, access controls, and security hardening.
- Implement AWS networking across multi-account environments, including VPCs, routing, security groups, network ACLs, DNS, load balancing, private connectivity, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, and site-to-site VPNs.
- Implement federated identity and access management, least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, policy enforcement, vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and auditable change control.
- Develop Python-based automation, API integrations, internal tooling, and operational utilities.
- Establish observability with metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks, and troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues.
- Support incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery, backup and restore automation, and operational resilience.
- Enable engineering teams through self-service platform capabilities, secure-by-default patterns, documentation, technical standards, architecture reviews, and mentoring.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of progressively responsible experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads in AWS.
- Experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools, with a preference for Terraform and/or CDK.
- Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines or comparable platforms.
- Production Kubernetes experience covering containerized workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management, deployment strategies, and troubleshooting; Amazon EKS, Docker, and Helm experience is preferred.
- Advanced AWS networking knowledge, including VPC design, subnetting, route tables, security groups, network ACLs, DNS, load balancers, private connectivity, and multi-account networking.
- Understanding of federated identity and access management using SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, MFA, role-based access control, and least-privilege IAM design.
- Hands-on experience integrating or administering an identity provider such as Okta, Keycloak, or Authentik.
- Proficiency in Python, including object-oriented programming, automated testing, API integrations, and maintainable automation or platform tooling; Bash and boto3 experience is expected.
- Experience with infrastructure and application security practices, including IAM, encryption and KMS, secrets management, vulnerability management, centralized logging, monitoring, and security automation.
- Strong Linux and Git fundamentals.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, regulated or government environments, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, DoD SRG, ITAR, CJIS, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark controls, policy-as-code, GitOps, observability platforms, incident management, and disaster recovery is preferred.
- AWS certifications and a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, are bonus qualifications.
Benefits
- Base salary of $140,000–$182,000, based on experience, qualifications, and location.
- Signing bonus and quarterly performance bonuses.
- Company-sponsored medical benefits and 401(k).
- Flexible time off and relocation assistance.
- Full-time, onsite position.
- U.S. Citizens only; visa sponsorship is not available.
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About Advanced Space
Advanced Space provides mission design, navigation, flight dynamics software, and mission systems engineering to commercial, civil, and national security space programs. The privately held company, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, also delivers turnkey missions and autonomy/AI technology, operating NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar mission and serving as prime contractor for AFRL’s Oracle cislunar situational awareness effort. Revenue comes from government contracts and commercial services, spanning lunar to deep-space applications.