Posted today
Top Secret/SCI
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
Unspecified
25%
Aerospace and Aviation
Chantilly, VA (On-Site/Office)
SENIOR MANAGER DEVOPS ENGINEERING – TS/SCI
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. Building on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation from Geost, Optical Systems delivers solutions to the warfighter for responsive, scalable sensing solutions across all orbital domains.
As a Senior Manager DevOps Engineering based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will be leading a team of hard-working and mission-focused engineers in architecting and deploying cloud environments, in implementing software process and CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining both enterprise tools and software system security. To be successful in this role, you must be enthusiastic about the role of DevOps in an organization and be a cross functional problem solver for the business. You’ll be responsible for setting the tone, driving productivity, and ensuring deadlines and targets are consistently met.
WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:
Lead a team of engineers across business level functions – enterprise tools, finance tools, engineering development process, software development integration and deployment
Drive best practices for AWS Cloud based architecture and development and production environments
Collaborate with project leads and team members to meet mission objectives
Work directly 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)
Lead Agile sprints and associated activities
Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
Perform other duties as assigned
YOU’LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance
1-3 years of team leadership or management experience
10+ years of hands-on experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments
Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.)
Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory
Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
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, etc.
Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash
CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
THESE QUALIFICATIONS WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE:
Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations
Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis
Expertise in the Git version control system command line
Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus
Regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, operate computer keyboard and controls, and communicate verbally and in writing
Must be physically able to commute to buildings
Occasional exposure to dust, fumes and moderate levels of noise
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. Building on more than 20 years of electro-optical and infrared systems innovation from Geost, Optical Systems delivers solutions to the warfighter for responsive, scalable sensing solutions across all orbital domains.
As a Senior Manager DevOps Engineering based at our Optical Systems site in Chantilly, VA, you will be leading a team of hard-working and mission-focused engineers in architecting and deploying cloud environments, in implementing software process and CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining both enterprise tools and software system security. To be successful in this role, you must be enthusiastic about the role of DevOps in an organization and be a cross functional problem solver for the business. You’ll be responsible for setting the tone, driving productivity, and ensuring deadlines and targets are consistently met.
WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:
Lead a team of engineers across business level functions – enterprise tools, finance tools, engineering development process, software development integration and deployment
Drive best practices for AWS Cloud based architecture and development and production environments
Collaborate with project leads and team members to meet mission objectives
Work directly 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)
Lead Agile sprints and associated activities
Support onsite work, as well as travel or offsite work, as needed
Perform other duties as assigned
YOU’LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance
1-3 years of team leadership or management experience
10+ years of hands-on experience with architecting solutions in AWS Cloud environments
Experience in key AWS services (such as EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, S3, etc.)
Experience in supporting DevOps tools and pipeline environments, such as Jira, SharePoint, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Artifactory
Experience working with Container technologies (such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
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, etc.
Background in scripting and/or coding, such as Java, Python, Terraform, and/or Bash
CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
THESE QUALIFICATIONS WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE:
Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other technical field
Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations or IT transformations
Experience in database administration; one or more of MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
Experience in AWS ElastiCache for Redis
Expertise in the Git version control system command line
Familiarity with Information Security frameworks/standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, RFC2196, etc.)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus
Regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, operate computer keyboard and controls, and communicate verbally and in writing
Must be physically able to commute to buildings
Occasional exposure to dust, fumes and moderate levels of noise
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