Senior DevOps Engineer

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.

At Rocket Lab, we’re not just launching rockets — we're building the future of space. Our Space Systems team builds everything from complete spacecraft, precision payloads to the components and subsystems that allow them to thrive in space, like solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, radios, and more.

Our Space Systems team has enabled more than 1,700 missions, ranging from interplanetary exploration, in-space manufacturing to national security and defense initiatives. The team has built spacecraft, payloads, and components for missions to the Moon and Mars, working with partners including NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force. Whether it’s a single high-performance spacecraft, constellation, or the vertically integrated components that help them get to space — our world class Space Systems team is empowering some of the boldest and most ambitious space missions.

Based out of Rocket Lab's global headquarters in Long Beach, CA, we are looking to hire a Senior Dev Ops Engineer I. In this role you will build, operate, and improve the observability platform that gives our teams clear, actionable insight into the health and performance of mission‑critical systems. This role sits within the Dev Sec Ops  organization and focuses on reliable, scalable telemetry collection, storage, visualization, and alerting across our environments.

This is a technical role for someone who enjoys making complex systems understandable and dependable. You will partner with Space Systems teams to improve monitoring coverage, alert quality, dashboard usability, and operational response. Your work will directly improve the reliability, performance, and security of software systems supporting space missions.

• Build, operate, and continuously improve the organization's observability stack, including Grafana, Grafana Mimir, kube-prometheus-stack, and Grafana Alloy.
• Design and maintain scalable metrics collection, ingestion, retention, and query patterns for Kubernetes and cloud-based workloads.
• Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards that provide actionable insights to engineering teams and leadership.
• Design, tune, and maintain alerting and notification workflows that reduce noise and enable timely, effective incident response.
• Partner with engineering teams to define meaningful service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and monitoring standards.
• Improve observability coverage by identifying telemetry gaps, analyzing trends, and implementing durable instrumentation and monitoring improvements.
• Integrate AWS Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail telemetry into the observability platform to support operational visibility, security monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage observability infrastructure through version-controlled, automated deployments using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive continuous improvement through data-driven analysis of platform reliability, telemetry quality, dashboard adoption, and alert effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot complex monitoring, telemetry, and alerting issues across AWS, and GCP environments.
• Work with development teams through code reviews and integrated pipelines to ensure observability is built in from the start.
• Design and implement AI agents that detect, analyze, and troubleshoot software testing failures with minimal human intervention
• Build and maintain…