DevOps Engineer Sr

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

We are a dynamic team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As a part of a small, cross‑functional team responsible for mission operation IT and communications infrastructure, you'll be instrumental in developing infrastructure to power Blue Origin's mission systems. This is a hands‑on position focused on creating IaC for critical IT systems directly supporting launch and space‑based systems.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, ambition, and high standards to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work on rewarding problems and interesting technologies. You will bring a software engineering approach to ensuring our systems are operational and scalable. You will implement the infrastructure that allows for rapid development and iteration of software throughout the company, including distributed systems and embedded software on‑board our rockets and space vehicles. You will make decisions and implement systems that affect the capabilities of thousands of rocket scientists and engineers at Blue Origin and beyond.

• Amazon Web Services
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Datadog
• Splunk
• Gitlab
• VMware vSphere
• Linux
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Bash, Powershell
• Go, C#, and Python

• Technical breadth and depth with a strong understanding of emerging trends and technologies
• A strong bias for automating everything and reducing toil
• Humility and the enthusiasm to learn unfamiliar domains
• A strong 'customer first' personality and desire to be a domain expert
• Background in both on‑prem and cloud infrastructure deployments using CI/CD IaC tools
• Deep understanding of networking principles
• Emphasis on security and reliability

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of software - from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement
• Support services before they go to production through activities such as system design, consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, scaling and launch reviews.
• Maintain software once it is live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Configure, deploy, scale, and administer open source and commercial software
• Understand and utilize existing APIs or develop new ones to solve automation gaps
• Identify bottlenecks in existing processes and develop strategies to streamline workflows between developers and operations

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
• Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices
• Interest in analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Familiarity with 'infrastructure as code'…