Lunar Systems Administrator III/IV

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The goal is to build sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and maintain IT hardware, including workstations, servers, hypervisors, switches, and printers.
• Lead the design and implementation of a configuration management solution.
• Support all aspects of information technology, including availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, backup, and security related functions for a variety of infrastructure solutions.
• Drive and lead improvements across the technology spectrum.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain mission support systems, including video and voice communications.
• Adaptively build highly robust, fault tolerant on-prem infrastructure to support unique customer requirements for data systems control and monitoring.
• Provide support in a mission critical environment, including troubleshooting and diagnosing end-user issues in highly visible, time sensitive situations.
• Create new software and hardware deployment baselines built in accordance with established STIGs.
• Generate and update engineering drawings of system deployments and ICDs (Interface Control Documents).
• Inventory management of ground infrastructure, including maintaining internal asset tracking tools, spares procurement, physical restocking, and deployment.
• Conduct regular audits of CI/CD pipelines to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Adapt quickly to new work scope and provide secondary support to unique one-off systems such as weather monitoring, fiber optics distribution, RF distribution/control towers, PKI, and datacenter facilities management.

Requirements

• US Citizen or Permanent Resident
• B.S. degree in information systems or computer science, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years professional experience minimum
• Demonstrated ability working in IT in Systems Administration and DevOps engineering
• Experience managing Linux as well as Windows server and desktop environments
• Practical knowledge and experience with standard network protocols (ie DHCP, DNS, NPS, SQL, SMTP, NFS, etc)
• Experience writing technical documentation and procedures
• Experience managing Active Directory environments, including writing custom account creation and management automation
• Hardware troubleshooting experience, ability to assemble and reconfigure workstation and server hardware
• Prior experience managing web servers, including basic proficiency with HTML, JavaScript, and SQL
• Ability to climb ladders and work on elevated structures
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to lift and install heavy server and communications equipment

Qualifications

• Prior experience utilizing Atlassian Confluence and JIRA, from a user as well as administration perspective
• Strong experience in leading complex DevOps projects from inception to completion, involving multiple stakeholders
• Practical experience with deploying and managing application security measures, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity standards
• Experience with AWS cloud computing
• Experience building standardized Windows and Linux images, as well as deployment tools and methodologies
• Experience with industrial controls software and infrastructure
• Knowledge and experience with PKI, STIGS, disk encryption and firewall administration
• Experience creating front end software interfaces to interact with databases
• Database administration experience

Skills

• Technical expertise
• Leadership skills
• Dedication to quality

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Company

Blue Origin is a private aerospace manufacturer founded by Jeff Bezos. They aim to make space accessible to everyone and are working on reusable rockets and spacecraft to achieve this goal. Blue Origin is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.