Sr. DevOps (8-12 yrs)

📋 Job Overview

At Advanced Space, we're enabling humanity's return to the Moon and building the technologies that will take us to Mars and beyond. We're looking for a Sr. DevOps Engineer with 8–12 years of experience to empower the successful execution of some of the most ambitious space missions in the industry.

🏢 About Advanced Space

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through innovative software, mission services, and technology solutions. As the owner and operator of NASA's CAPSTONE™ mission and the Prime Contractor for AFRL's Oracle mission, we're helping shape the future of cislunar exploration while supporting commercial, civil, and national security customers.

🎯 The Role

In this role, you'll design, build, automate, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure supporting mission-critical aerospace workloads. You'll partner closely with engineering teams to deliver cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation that enable reliable software delivery across development, test, and production environments.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and operate secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop reliable CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms.
• Design and maintain advanced cloud networking.
• Strengthen identity, security, and compliance.
• Automate and improve platform operations.
• Provide technical leadership and enable engineering teams.

📌 Required Qualifications

• You have 8–12 years of progressively responsible experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.
• You have strong hands-on experience designing and operating production workloads in AWS.
• You have experience delivering infrastructure through Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.
• You're experienced in building, maintaining, and troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines or comparable CI/CD platforms.
• You have production experience with Kubernetes, including containerized workloads, networking, RBAC, resource management, deployment strategies, and operational troubleshooting.
• You have advanced AWS networking knowledge, including VPC design, subnetting, route tables, security groups, network ACLs, DNS, load balancers, private connectivity, and multi-account networking.
• You understand federated identity and access management, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, MFA, role-based access control, and least-privilege IAM design.
• You have hands-on experience integrating or administering an identity provider such as Okta, Keycloak, Authentik, or an equivalent enterprise identity platform.
• You're proficient in Python, including object-oriented programming, automated testing, API integrations, and maintainable automation or platform tooling.
• You have experience applying infrastructure and application security practices, including IAM, encryption and KMS, secrets management, vulnerability management, centralized logging, monitoring, and security automation.
• You have strong Linux and Git fundamentals.
• You communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs effectively with engineers, program stakeholders, and customers.
• You're a U.S. citizen and can obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
• You take ownership. When you see a challenge, you work with the team to solve it.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Designing, deploying, or operating workloads in AWS GovCloud (US).
• Working in regulated, government, civil-space, national-security, or defense-adjacent environments.
• Compliance-oriented cloud operations involving FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST SP 800-53, DoD SRG, ITAR, CJIS, or CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark controls.
• AWS Organizations, multi-account landing zones, Service Control Policies, cross-account roles, centralized logging, AWS Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs.
• Policy-as-code or Kubernetes admission controls using OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or equivalent technologies.
• GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Infrastructure monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar platforms.
• Incident management, disaster recovery planning, backup and restore automation, and defining or validating recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs).
• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

🎁 Benefits

Base Salary: $140,000–$182,000 (based on experience, qualifications, and location)
Signing bonus
Quarterly performance bonuses
Company-sponsored medical benefits and 401(k)
Flexible time off
Relocation assistance

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This position is open to U.S. Citizens only. Visa sponsorship is not available.
The ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance is required.