Spacecraft DevOps Engineer Job Alexandria area,Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Space Ground System Solutions (SGSS), a subsidiary of Parsons, has an immediate full‑time opening for a Spacecraft Dev Ops Engineer (SDE) starting onsite at our office in Alexandria, VA, and eventually transitioning to work full time at our customer site near La Plata, MD. The role will support spacecraft development, integration, testing, and operations through automation, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and infrastructure management.

The SDE will work alongside the software team to maintain and support the autonomy of the spacecraft ground system, review and analyze logs and trends, troubleshoot issues, create and maintain status tracking documentation, develop procedures, and serve as part of an on‑call team to respond to critical errors.

Job Responsibilities

Build and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests to standardize application deployments
Design and build container images, ensuring they are optimized for production workloads
Scan container images for vulnerabilities before deployment to ensure application security
Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Lab CI/CD and Jenkins
Troubleshoot and report software anomalies
On‑call support – available to respond to site 24/7 for one week of every eight to ten weeks
On‑call support – must be within 1 hour of site during on‑call rotations
Work in a team environment

Required

Skills and Qualifications

Must be a US Citizen
Must meet eligibility requirements associated with obtaining an active DoD Secret clearance
Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or similar operating systems
Knowledge of industry practices, techniques, and standards
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Kubectl
Experience writing scripts (examples: shell scripting, Python, etc.)
Familiarity with writing playbooks and roles using Ansible
Experience with software configuration management tools (examples: Git, Bit Bucket, Git Lab, Jira, etc.)
Familiarity with virtualization and cloud technologies (examples: AWS, Open Stack, VMware, Proxmox, etc.)
Familiarity with CI/CD (examples: Jenkins, Git Lab runners)

Preferred

Skills and Qualifications

Experience documenting test results for corrective actions
Experience interacting with databases (examples: MySQL, Maria

DB, Mongo

DB, Redis, etc.)
Excellent troubleshooting skills
Desire to work in the space industry developing and testing satellite command and control systems for test and operations
Understanding of networking concepts, system monitoring, and basic IT infrastructure
0‑5 years of software engineering/development experience using C/C++ in a Linux environment
Experience building, deploying, and running containers (examples: buildah, podman)

Benefits

ALL benefits fully funded
, for your entire family

this includes Medical/Dental/Vision/Group Life/STD/LTD - no employee premiums

SGSS funded HSA (Health Savings Account) provided

with SGSS funding the maximum amount allowed by the IRS

Retirement Savings Plan (RSP/401k) with a 20% annual company contribution - no employee contribution required

SGSS is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

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