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Blue Origin LLC Mission Operations, DevOps Engineer III - Lunar Permanence in Seattle, Washington
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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. As part of a growing team of experts, you will provide the data vital to design, build and launch rockets faster, cheaper and with continually higher quality. We accomplish this by building state-of-the art software and analyzing data to uncover patterns for quick decision making. We design systems that track millions of physical parts and complex manufacturing activities in remote locations. We build systems that process massive amounts of data and engineering tools that enable rapid design and iteration. We are seeking team members of all backgrounds who are passionate about space and who have a strong desire to serve on a team that is the backbone of the company. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. 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. Our tech stack at glance: Amazon Web Services Kubernetes and Docker Datadog Gitlab Linux Ansible Java, JavaScript, and Python What makes our DevOps Engineers successful? 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 Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 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 Minimum Qualifications 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" and technologies used to achieve this Knowledge of software defined networking (VPC, Subnets, Firewalls, VPNs, etc.) Knowledge of containerization technologies (such as D