Mission Control DevOps Engineer
Core
Design, deploy, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure for the Nyx space orbital vehicle's ground segment, ensuring mission-critical uptime for flight controllers and ground software teams.
Role type
Senior IC DevOps Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure for aerospace mission operations.
Domain
Aerospace / Cloud Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, EBS, EFS), Kubernetes (EKS, Helm, RBAC), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK), CI/CD pipelines, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch), networking (VPC, subnets, load balancers), security (IAM, secrets management, encryption)
Preferred skills
Aerospace/defense domain experience, multi-region/disaster recovery architectures, real-time telemetry data pipelines, AWS certifications
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Helm, Vault
Responsibilities
Design and operate AWS cloud infrastructure for ground segment software; Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for mission-critical operations; Manage Kubernetes clusters including node scaling, upgrades, and networking; Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated software deployment; Define infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or AWS CDK; Monitor system health and reliability using observability stacks; Enforce security and compliance best practices across infrastructure; Manage data storage and retention strategies for mission data; Participate in on-call rotations and incident response during mission-critical windows; Collaborate with ground software and mission operations teams to translate requirements into infrastructure solutions.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
