DevOps Engineer III
Listed on 2026-06-27
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity, SRE/Site Reliability
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.
As a Dev Ops Engineer III at Firefly Aerospace, you will design, deploy, and operate the cloud and on-premises infrastructure that powers mission-critical spacecraft ground systems. This role is responsible for enabling reliable, scalable, secure, and highly available software platforms that support spacecraft operations, mission planning, telemetry processing, command execution, and enterprise ground segment services.
You will work closely with software engineers, mission operators, cybersecurity, IT, and systems engineering teams to deploy and maintain complex distributed systems spanning Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, streaming data platforms, databases, and CI/CD pipelines. As Firefly evolves toward enterprise, multi-tenant ground systems supporting multiple missions and customers, you will play a key role in designing infrastructure architectures that provide scalability, resiliency, observability, security, and operational excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Design, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting spacecraft and launch vehicle ground software systems.
- Deploy and operate containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and related orchestration technologies.
- Design and manage scalable environments for distributed microservice architectures supporting mission operations.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and configuration management.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, Git Ops methodologies, and related Dev Ops tooling.
- Deploy and scale enterprise data platforms including message brokers, stream processing frameworks, databases, and observability systems.
- Design highly available and fault-tolerant architectures supporting mission-critical operations.
- Assist software development teams with application deployment, performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Design and implement cloud architectures within AWS utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch, and related technologies.
- Develop infrastructure solutions supporting multi-mission and multi-tenant ground system deployments.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and IT teams to implement secure authentication, authorization, auditing, and compliance controls.
- Support capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, performance analysis, and system scalability assessments.
- Implement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Support software deployments across development, integration, test, staging, and production environments.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness activities.
- Contribute to architecture reviews and technology evaluations to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability of Firefly ground systems.
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field.
- 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm in production environments.
- Experience designing and supporting distributed microservice architectures.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Argo CD, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, or similar tools.
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