Senior Manager DevOps Engineering

Posted today

Top Secret/SCI

Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)

Unspecified

25%

Aerospace and Aviation

Chantilly, VA (ON-SITE/OFFICE)

SENIOR MANAGER DEVOPS ENGINEERING – TS/SCI

Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) challenges for Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. Building on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation from Geost, Optical Systems delivers solutions to the warfighter for responsive, scalable sensing solutions across all orbital domains.

As a Senior Manager DevOps Engineering based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will be leading a team of hard-working and mission-focused engineers in architecting and deploying cloud environments, in implementing software process and CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining both enterprise tools and software system security. To be successful in this role, you must be enthusiastic about the role of DevOps in an organization and be a cross functional problem solver for the business. You’ll be responsible for setting the tone, driving productivity, and ensuring deadlines and targets are consistently met.

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:

Lead a team of engineers across business level functions – enterprise tools, finance tools, engineering development process, software development integration and deployment

Drive best practices for AWS Cloud based architecture and development and production environments

Collaborate with project leads and team members to meet mission objectives

Work directly with Security and IT for policy assurance

Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs

Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers

Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g. containers)

Lead Agile sprints and associated activities

Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed

Perform other duties as assigned

YOU’LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field

Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance

1-3 years of team leadership or management experience

10+ years of hands-on experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments

Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.)

Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory

Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)

Proficiency in Linux system administration

Ability to design, enable, and deliver scalable and automated strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Ansible and Terraform

Experience supporting cloud network resources such as VPC, URL proxies, private link, DNS, ACLs, Security groups, routing tables, etc.

Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash

CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

THESE QUALIFICATIONS WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE:

Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field

Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations

Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL

Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis

Expertise in the Git version control system command line

Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus

Regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, operate computer keyboard and controls, and communicate verbally and in writing

Must be physically able to commute to buildings

Occasional exposure to dust, fumes and moderate levels of noiseGROUP ID: 91093496