Senior DevOps Engineer — Observatory Infrastructure Lead

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy; La Serena; Presencial; CLP 11.160.000 - 15.624.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The Senior DevOps Engineer at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a key technical leader responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of critical infrastructure and services supporting observatory operations in Chile.

This role requires deep expertise in DevOps practices, infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and system reliability. Develop, deploy, configure, test, and maintain DevOps services, lead incident response, and mentor engineers while collaborating

Formación

• 9+ years of experience as a technical specialist in computing and networking environments.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Ruby, Go, or Rust).
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (pytest, rspec, go test, cargo test).
• Experience designing and deploying large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience using distributed version control systems (Git or Mercurial).
• 5+ years of experience with microservices and distributed architectures (containers, Kubernetes, serverless).
• Strong experience with Agile software development lifecycles.
• Experience with GitHub, Jira, and issue tracking systems.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers.
• CKA certification highly desired.

Responsabilidades

• Develop, deploy, configure, test, and maintain DevOps services.
• Design and develop DevOps infrastructure deployment and provisioning solutions.
• Design and implement monitoring, reporting, and service health tools.
• Develop and maintain configuration management solutions.
• Build test automation frameworks with engineering teams.
• Optimize performance and ensure high availability of observatory infrastructure.
• Lead or collaborate on incident response for outages and operational issues.
• Provide technical guidance to management for informed decisions.
• Mentor and support junior engineers.

Conocimientos

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux

English

Mentoring

Herramientas

GitHub

Jira

Docker

Descripción del empleo

The Senior DevOps Engineer at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a key technical leader responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of critical infrastructure and services supporting observatory operations in Chile.

This role requires deep expertise in DevOps practices, infrastructure automation, container orchestration, and system reliability. Develop, deploy, configure, test, and maintain DevOps services, lead incident response, and mentor engineers while collaborating