Staff DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines, automating the build, test, and release of frontend and backend applications for the Mission Software Team.
• Collaborate with Flight Software teams to streamline release management and integrated testing between physical and simulated flight assets and the supporting mission software.
• Design and help operate a highly secure and stable cloud environment to support in-flight missions with the suite of mission software services.
• Aid in the initial design of this environment as well as the migration of deployed services from development environments to the mission environment.
• Drive the operational requirements and procedures for mission software services and take ownership of reliability engineering; ensure the proper tooling is in place for monitoring and maintaining continuous uptime.
• Regularly exercise our services capabilities by orchestrating chaos testing, load testing, and automated regression testing.
• Build and expand on an internal developer portal that includes runbooks, incident response management, centralized API registry, service health metrics, and more.
• Work cross-functionally with other teams at Vast including InfoSec and IT.
• Help build the technical and cultural groundwork for a DevOps organization at Vast.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in application development with Python, Go, or Javascript/Typescript.
• Extensive experience developing and managing solutions in the cloud using Terraform.
• Deep experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes; should be able to confidently administer, configure, and operate a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster.
• Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts, both fundamental (OSI Model, linux networking appliances, etc.) as well as cloud (VPC’s, transit gateways, proper subnetting and routing, etc.).
• Ability to effectively triage priorities, communicate initiatives and timelines, and promote DevOps skills and culture within a fast-paced organization.

Qualifications

• Expertise in building and testing distributed Golang applications.
• Expertise in optimally configuring and maintaining Kafka clusters.
• Expertise in setting strategy for incident response and remediation.
• Experience driving security and code quality standards through automated scanners applied to the codebase (SAST + SCA).
• Experience with self-hosted observability instrumentation in distributed systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.).

Pay

Senior DevOps Engineer: $159,000 - $226,980
Staff DevOps Engineer: $188,600 - $267,700
Pay Range: California $159,000—$267,700 USD