Job DescriptionAre you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!
We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA's pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA's largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.
We have an exciting opportunity for a
Cloud Operations Engineer to join our team GeoControl Systems, a teammate company.
As a
Cloud Platform Engineer, you will:
- Developingnew cloud-native platform services spanning all three major cloudenvironments
- Developingbest practices for cloud-native application development and promoting themwithin the organization
- AdministeringNASA cloud networks and managing requests for deployment of COTS and CloudNative applications into cloud environments
- Writingquality code, providing quality and engaged code reviews for peers
- Workingwith Managed Kubernetes offering across all three major cloud providers
- Integratingcloud managed AI and data services with other bespoke and open-sourceKubernetes applications
- Developingbest practices for cloud-native application development and promoting themwithin the organization
- Identifyingopportunities to abstract Prospective Project requirements and developEnterprise-grade, multi-tenant Platform Services
- Collaboratewith NASA security and compliance teams to ensure teams are adhering toindustry best practices and regulatory requirements
- Workingdirectly with NASA human spaceflight missions like Orion, Lunar Gateway,Artemis
- Performother duties as required
RequirementsThis position has been posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience, requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates at any level for which this position has been advertised.
Requisition Qualifications: - Typicallyrequires a bachelor's degree or equivalent certification in a related areaand normally possess 10 years of experience in the field or in a relatedarea.
- Strongexperience with Kubernetes in production
- Abilityto manage and use GitLab (preferably very proficient)
- Hands-onexperience with CI/CD pipeline tools
- ObservabilityMonitoring tools such as Grafana and SuperSet
- Proficiencywith Infrastructure-as-Code utilizing Terraform for infrastructureautomation and/or open source alternatives (OpenTofu)
- ExtensiveLinux experience (familiarity with Windows also preferred, but notrequired)
- Expertin at least one programming language (Go and Python is preferred)
- Experiencewith Python, SQL (and R is preferable)
- Workingunderstanding of Machine Learning Model Lifecycle management (ispreferred)
Requisition Preferences: - Solution-orientedmindset, accepts feedback with enthusiasm
- Effectivelycommunicates with team members: clear status updates to direct report,regularly establishes unanimous decisions with peers
- Self-motivatedand self-managing, with strong organizational skills
- Experiencearchitecting and building cloud-native applications
- Demonstrablesuccess and confidence in owning the full project lifecycle
- Goodinstincts for identifying opportunities for abstraction
- Balancesindividual project development tasks at hand with overall platform andcompany goals
BenefitsGCS health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Typical benefits offered include flexible work schedules and opportunities to work remotely, educational reimbursement, retirement benefits (401K, Roth), health benefits, tax saving options, disability benefits, life and accident insurance, voluntary benefits, paid time off and paid holidays, and parental and pregnancy leave.
