Senior DevOps Engineer ; TS​/SCI

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more – all with the goal of opening access space. The rockets and satellites we build, and launch enable some of the most ambitious and vital space missions globally, supporting scientific exploration, Earth observation, and missions to combat climate change, national security, and exciting new technology demonstrations.

Our Electron rocket has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 230 satellites to orbit while we work to develop Neutron, our upcoming medium‑lift, reusable launch vehicle for larger constellation deployment. Our Space Systems business designs and builds an extensive line of satellites, payloads, and their components, including spacecraft selected to support NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and components used on the James Webb Space Telescope.

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.

As a Senior Dev Ops Engineer I based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) in a software development operation with AWS cloud‑based architecture.

• Support AWS development, test, and production environments
• Collaborate with project leads and team members
• Align 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)
• Participate in Agile sprints and associated activities
• Support onsite work, as well as travel or off‑site work, as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent discipline with 5‑8 years of experience
• Hands‑on experience in cloud‑based Dev Ops environments
• Active TS/SCI security clearance

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
• Experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments
• Experience in key AWS services (e.g., EC2, ELB, RDS, Route 53, Cloud Watch, S3)
• Experience in supporting Dev Ops tools and pipeline environments (e.g., Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Sonar Qube, Artifactory)
• Experience working with container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
• 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
• Background in scripting and/or coding (Java, Python, Terraform, Bash)
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit)
• Experience with on‑premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations
• Experience in database administration (MySQL, Maria
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL)
• Experience in AWS Elasti Cache for Redis
• Expertise in Git command line
• Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (CIS, NIST, RFC 2196)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
• Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision,…