Our client is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical infrastructure and products. Products include (but are not limited to) automated Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) data analysis systems, vehicle configuration sign-off tools, continuous integration systems for simulation and flight software, and telemetry data analysis tooling. Working with a small team, the ideal candidate is a self-starter that possesses skills spanning across software development and product operations that thrives in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

Responsibilities:

Develop automation to deploy and manage compute resources both on-premises and in the cloud
Deploy, operate, maintain, and scale mission-critical products and services
Partner closely with cross-functional groups to build highly scalable, operable and maintainable products
Exercise extreme ownership of the problem space and provide end-user support for internal customers
Deploy and manage core infrastructure such as servers, databases, monitoring and storage
Engage in and improve the whole software development lifecycle of services -- from concept and design through test, deployment, and maintenance
Collaborate closely with IT to manage underlying infrastructure
Participate and support off-site operations
Practice sustainable incident response

Basic Qualifications:

B.S. in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), or similar from an accredited university
2+ years experience in the development of aircraft, missile, spacecraft or similar electronic/avionic systems
3+ years of Site Reliability or DevOps experience
3+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks
Experience with source code and version control tools such as SVN and Git
Automation experience in Bash, Python, and other scripting languages
Must be comfortable working as a part of a high performance team to deliver mission critical products and services on schedule

Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years of DevOps, System Administration, or Site Reliability Engineering
5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems
3+ years of experience with scripting development frameworks in Bash or Python.
Strong understanding of Docker, Vagrant, and Kubernetes, or equivalent technologies.
Strong grasp of virtualization and hypervisor technologies (e.g. VirtualBox, VMware, Nutanix)
Experience with issue tracking and management systems such as JIRA
Understanding of databases and data modeling.
Experience maintaining and managing dozens of engineering workstations and servers
Ability to assess performance bottlenecks and identify performance improvement techniques.
Strong networking knowledge of TCP/IP.
Demonstrates exceptional communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate with internal customers, peers, and management
Demonstrated skills in applications development in at least one or more high-level programming languages (e.g. C++, C#, Rust)
Day of Launch and systems testing support, including vehicle network, vehicle configuration sign-off, tool deployment, etc.
Demonstrated leadership of or within a small project team either in current role or during project-based team in school

What We Look For

Critical thinking: Our client's engineers understand the "why" behind all design decisions, operational events and test outcomes.
Ability to deal with ambiguity: there is no roadmap and our client's engineers must be comfortable defining their own pathway to an objective.
End-to-end ownership: projects are delivered fully complete and ready for flight; there is no one to pick up the slack of partially complete work.

ITAR Requirement

This position requires access to information protected under US export control laws, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and/or the Export Administration Regulations. As such, US person status (including US citizens, permanent residents, asylees, and refugees) is a required qualification for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This client is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, genetics, or citizenship status (when otherwise legally authorized to work and access export-controlled data) and will not be discriminated against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants of all ages.

Benefits:

Unlimited PTO (and people actually take vacation time)
Great healthcare coverage (Including Dental, Vision, Disability & Life Insurance)
Market Value Compensation
Working on incredible technology with brilliant people

Company Overview for AdAstra
This position is a direct hire, permanent placement for a client of AdAstra. AdAstra's mission is building thriving teams within elite aerospace organizations.
Our commitment is to curate and close premier talent for our partners, achieved via specialized technical screening, personalized culture assessment, and high-touch candidate engagement. We are motivated to foster boundless team satisfaction and catalyze innovation for future generations, enabling inconceivable technology from Earth, to the stars.

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