Senior Product Operations Engineer, Space
Core
Senior technical anchor for a classified, air-gapped networking infrastructure supporting U.S. Space Force Space Domain Awareness missions.
Role type
Senior IC Product Operations Engineer (Security & Infrastructure)
Builds
Resilient, software-defined, distributed mesh networking layer for critical Space Domain Awareness data
Domain
Defense / Space Systems / Classified Networking
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, Linux, STIG compliance, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/Puppet/Terraform), Bash/Python scripting, Observability (Splunk/ELK/Open Search), Incident Response, Security Hardening
Preferred skills
Military background, COMSEC/HAIPE experience, Networking certifications (CCNA), Go/Rust/Java
Technologies
Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Bash, Python, Splunk, ELK, Open Search, Linux, Git
Responsibilities
Stand up and harden classified Linux infrastructure in air-gapped environments; Enforce STIG compliance and system hardening standards; Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code; Provide 24x7 on-call incident response and root-cause analysis; Collaborate with Mission Ops and TPMs to validate operational readiness; Serve as technical subject matter expert and first point of contact for customer sites.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
