Cloud Platform Engineer for Space Missions

Amentum company

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

3 days ago
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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

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