Cloud Platform Engineer for Space Missions

Amentum company; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 work schedule

Onsite cafeteria

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement benefits (including 401(k)"

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Bastion team supporting NASA missions at Johnson Space Center. You will develop cloud-native platform services across AWS, Azure and GCP, promote best practices, and manage deployment of COTS and cloud-native apps.

You will work with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and security/compliance teams to ensure mission success. The role requires hands-on coding, strong Linux experience, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification in a related area and normally possess 15 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes in production
• Ability to manage and use GitLab (preferably very proficient)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline tools
• Observability Monitoring tools such as Grafana and SuperSet
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code utilizing Terraform for infrastructure automation and/or open source alternatives (OpenTofu)
• Extensive Linux experience (familiarity with Windows also preferred, but not required)
• Expert in at least one programming language (Go and Python is preferred)
• Experience with Python, SQL (and R is preferable)
• Working understanding of Machine Learning Model Lifecycle management (is preferred)

Responsibilities

• Developing new cloud-native platform services spanning all three major cloud environments
• Developing best practices for cloud-native application development and promoting them within the organization
• Administering NASA cloud networks and managing requests for deployment of COTS and Cloud Native applications into cloud environments
• Writing quality code, providing quality and engaged code reviews for peers
• Working with Managed Kubernetes offering across all three major cloud providers
• Integrating cloud managed AI and data services with other bespoke and open-source Kubernetes applications
• Developing best practices for cloud-native application development and promoting them within the organization
• Identifying opportunities to abstract Prospective Project requirements and develop Enterprise-grade, multi-tenant Platform Services
• Collaborate with NASA security and compliance teams to ensure teams are adhering to industry best practices and regulatory requirements
• Working directly with NASA human spaceflight missions like Orion, Lunar Gateway, Artemis
• Perform other duties as required

Skills

Kubernetes in production

GitLab proficiency

CI/CD tooling

Linux

Python

Go

SQL

Terraform

OpenTofu

Grafana

Superset

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification

Tools

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Grafana

Superset

Linux

Python

Go

SQL

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Bastion team supporting NASA missions at Johnson Space Center. You will develop cloud-native platform services across AWS, Azure and GCP, promote best practices, and manage deployment of COTS and cloud-native apps.

You will work with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and security/compliance teams to ensure mission success. The role requires hands-on coding, strong Linux experience, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams