Cloud Operations Engineer

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Operations Engineer on the JETS II contract at NASA Johnson Space Center. You will help design, build, and operate enterprise-grade, multi-tenant cloud platform services across all three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) that NASA teams rely on to deploy commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and cloud-native applications. The work directly supports NASA human spaceflight missions, including Orion, Lunar Gateway, and Artemis.

This is a senior, hands-on cloud platform engineering role - not a help desk, cloud-console-only, or traditional on-premises sysadmin position. Candidates should have direct production experience running Kubernetes and automating infrastructure as code across one or more major cloud providers.

MRI Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Operations Engineer on the JETS II contract at NASA Johnson Space Center. You will help design, build, and operate enterprise-grade, multi-tenant cloud platform services across all three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) that NASA teams rely on to deploy commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and cloud-native applications. The work directly supports NASA human spaceflight missions, including Orion, Lunar Gateway, and Artemis.

This is a senior, hands-on cloud platform engineering role - not a help desk, cloud-console-only, or traditional on-premises sysadmin position. Candidates should have direct production experience running Kubernetes and automating infrastructure as code across one or more major cloud providers.

You will develop new cloud-native platform services and administer NASA cloud networks, managing requests to deploy COTS and cloud-native applications into those environments. Much of your work will center on managed Kubernetes offerings (EKS, AKS, GKE), including integrating cloud-managed AI and data services with bespoke and open-source Kubernetes applications. You will write quality code, give thoughtful, engaged code reviews to your peers, and help define and promote best practices for cloud-native application development across the organization.

You will look for opportunities to abstract requirements from prospective projects into reusable, multi-tenant platform services, and you will partner with NASA security and compliance teams to make sure platforms and the teams using them follow industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

• Hands-on, production experience running Kubernetes - ideally a managed offering such as EKS, AKS, or GKE. Experience must include operating and troubleshooting clusters, not solely deploying applications to a cluster someone else manages.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code using Terraform or an open-source alternative such as Open Tofu.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with strong Git Lab proficiency (including administering Git Lab and Git Lab CI/CD).

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent certification in a related field, with 10-15 years of experience in the field or a related area
• Extensive Linux experience (Windows familiarity is a plus, but not required)
• Expert-level skill in at least one programming language (Go and/or Python preferred)
• Experience with Python and SQL
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Apache Superset
• Demonstrated problem-solving, planning, and communication skills
  
  Ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Experience architecting and building cloud-native applications
• Experience across more than one of the major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Working understanding…