Senior DevOps Engineer - New Shepard

Application close date:

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 is part of the New Shepard program. New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for designing and managing development operations infrastructure for New Shepard's software team. Your responsibilities will include building and optimizing build, analysis, and regression pipelines across all environments and ensuring robust and reliable software deployments. You will develop tools to enhance development workflow efficiency while maintaining compliance with our certification standards. The ideal candidate will quickly learn the system architecture and Blue Origin's engineering processes, actively contributing throughout the lifecycle.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient deployment of avionics software to hardware-in-the-loop systems.
• Apply our software development lifecycle for safety-critical avionics systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards (e.g., DO-178C, ISO 26262) and internal safety requirements.
• Apply a deep understanding of safety-critical software development to build and refine tooling that improves process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide informed infrastructure expertise and support to Avionics customers and partners throughout the organization.
• Collect and analyze data to develop a deep understanding of, and continuously improve service performance, observability, and robustness.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree or equivalent experience in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
• At least 7 years professional experience in an infrastructure or infrastructure-adjacent role
• Expert level knowledge of deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux-based software in production environments
• Demonstrated competence with at least one programming language, e.g. Python, Golang, Ruby, Perl, etc.
• Significant ability to develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code for cloud resources, virtual environments and / or physical workstations (e.g. Ansible, Helm, Terraform)
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Jenkins
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team on rapid development programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience configuring managed networking hardware (Cisco, Juniper, etc.) and network-related issues
• Windows and RHEL system administration and deployment experience
• Experience migrating applications from on-prem to the cloud, between clouds or from physical to virtual
• Experience working in hardware-related contexts or owning infrastructure to support embedded applications
• Experience developing tools that use ML and deep learning algorithms for workflow improvement and anomaly/error detection

 

Compensation Range for:

CO applicants is $163,272.00-$228,579.75;WA applicants is $177,567.00-$248,593.80

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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