Cloud Engineer

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. As the partner of choice for critical space missions, Firefly is the only commercial company to launch a satellite to orbit with 24-hour notice and the only company to achieve a successful Moon landing. Our launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles provide government and commercial customers with full mission services from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

Headquartered in north Austin, Texas, Firefly is looking for passionate, hardworking innovators to join our team and help fuel our successful trajectory into space.

We are currently searching for a Cloud Engineer to think critically about software development operations and find ways to implement automation throughout our organization. You will work closely with the Engineering Applications development team to push for continuous integration and deployment strategies. If you are a self-starter who is interested in supporting the systems to reduce advanced Launch Vehicle development costs in a fast-paced startup environment, this job is for you!

IT currently has one engineer experienced with cloud services. As we increase our usage of Cloud services (BGM2 is already planning this), we need additional headcount to help deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure to support the increased workload, and also provide redundancy for the team.
Increased usage of cloud services by mission teams will require additional cloud specialists that can address issues quickly when on-mission without causing burnout.

• Design and deploy solutions based on customer specifications
• Implement solutions using infrastructure-as-code framework in a hybrid cloud environment
• Deploy and maintain cloud networking infrastructure including Direct Connect, IPSEC VPN, and Transit gateways
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of cloud workloads & services supporting Firefly Corporate and Operations requirements
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain technical, functional, and user documentation complying with audit requirements.
• Respond to support requests for bugs & issues reported.
• Support training development for all levels of the organization as required.

Required

• 3-5+ years of prior experience as a Cloud Engineer or a Dev Ops Engineer w/ cloud experience
• 3-5+ years of git and terraform experience.
• 3-5+ years of AWS experience.
• 3-5+ years of building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with scripting modern languages such as python, powershell, node, etc.
• Good interpersonal skills with experience interfacing effectively between business groups and IT teams.
• Ability to document and communicate requirements.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a “make it happen” attitude.
• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science/Engineering, or a related discipline (4+ years direct industry experience may be substituted).

Desired

• On-premise/Cloud hybrid environment experience
• Experience with CMMC compliance frameworks
• Experience with AWS Gov Cloud
• Experience deploying & maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and docker containers.
• Evaluate development/infrastructure tools and generate value proposition report.
• Experience with infrastructure automations tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, etc.
• Knowledgeable in version controlling and managing system/application configurations.
• Experience generating cost reporting and budgets in AWS

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.