Cloud DevOps Engineer Lead

Overview

Cloud Dev Ops Engineer Lead

Job Location s: US-AZ-Chandler

Job :

Category:
Engineering

Worker Classification:
Regular Full-Time

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

Iridium understands the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe rely on Iridium to stay connected. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, you will be excited about the Senior Software Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Software Engineer within the Ground Systems Development team, you will apply cutting edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy ground system operations and user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment.

Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.

• Lead and develop high performing/scalable Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) architecture to meet the requirements of the SDA project
• Engage in cross-team App Cyber Security, Ground, and Constellation development to support AWS PaaS deployment environment and automation
• Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
• Create or maintain build environments for software products
• Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
• Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
• Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, COTS Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
• Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation
• Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders, as appropriate

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline
• 8+ years software programming experience
• Coding experience on Agile based teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
• Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
• Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
• Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
• Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met
• Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software
• Ability to comprehend technical documentation
• Have a positive attitude to take on ever increasing software development tasks
• Passion for working in a team driven environment consisting of operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers

• Experience with the following technologies:
• • Leading technical team(s) in CI/CD and Platform Architecture designs
  • Design and implementation of Kubernetes/EKS / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD
  • Design and implementation CI/CD Pipelining (Git Lab, JFrog Artifactory, Bit Bucket)
  • Design and implementation Kubernetes auto-deployment to AWS (Helm Charts)
  • Linux based environments and bash shell scripting
  • Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl
  • RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / Web Sockets
  • XML / JSON / SQL
  • SQL (e.g., Postgre
    
    SQL) and No
    
    SQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
  • js / Apache Web Server
  • Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)
  • Evaluate Fortify findings and determine response to the findings
  • Evaluate Sonar Qube findings and determine response to the findings
  • Assist in SW development response to security findings
  • Atlassian management/software development tools:
    Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence
  • Micro services…