DevOps Engineer II — Space-Grade CI/CD & Automation

Firefly Aerospace; Cedar Park (TX); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & vision plans

Educational reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace in north Austin, Texas, is seeking a DevOps Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain robust deployment pipelines and infrastructure. You will collaborate with IT, software, and systems teams to automate deployment, optimize resources, and ensure reliability across our stack.

Candidates should have strong Linux administration, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, and scripting skills, plus a passion for aerospace and secure, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux system administration and scripting ability.
• Hands-on Terraform for IaC across cloud and on-prem resources.
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD concepts.
• GIT version control with branching strategies and merges.
• Automation scripting in Bash, Python, or similar.
• Fundamental networking concepts including DNS/TLS/load balancing.
• Clear communication for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code solutions and pipelines.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Create automation scripts to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Maintain scalable, secure Linux-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with IT, software, and systems teams on deployments.

Skills

Linux administration

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Automation scripting

Networking basics

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Terraform modules

Job description

Firefly Aerospace in north Austin, Texas, is seeking a DevOps Engineer II to design, implement, and maintain robust deployment pipelines and infrastructure. You will collaborate with IT, software, and systems teams to automate deployment, optimize resources, and ensure reliability across our stack.

Candidates should have strong Linux administration, Terraform, Jenkins, Git, and scripting skills, plus a passion for aerospace and secure, scalable systems.