Manage infrastructure as code and use observability to provide a complete picture of platform health
Design for reliability, stability, and scale; find and remove bottlenecks with measurement and engineering
Practice proactive maintenance: capacity planning, lifecycle management, and reducing toil before it becomes an incident
Partner with software engineers, manufacturing stakeholders, and site teams to build operable, maintainable systems
Improve the full lifecycle—from design through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Provide high-quality support to manufacturing and engineering users
Communicate clearly with stakeholders and teammates
Participate in on-call and travel to sites as needed for deployments, incidents, and cross-site reliability
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 7+ years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps in lieu of a degree
3+ years of experience with Python and Python-based development frameworks
Experience with Linux operating systems
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience with compute, storage, and/or networking infrastructure in production
Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
Containers and virtualization (Docker, Kubernetes, vSphere, QEMU, KVM, etc.)
Databases and data modeling (Postgres, Clickhouse, etc.)
Ability to translate high-level requirements into implementations from first principles
Comfort with mission-critical systems and appropriate urgency and care
Skillful communication with customers, peers, and management
Comfort operating across multiple sites and manufacturing programs
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Must be able to travel to different sites (Hawthorne, CA; Redmond, WA; Cape Canaveral, FL; Starbase, TX)
Ability to pass Air Force background check for Cape Canaveral
This role requires you to be onsite. Remote and/or hybrid work will not be considered
ITAR REQUIREMENTS
To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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