Infra DevOps Engineer - Rocket Engine CI/CD

Frontdoor Defense; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks an Infrastructure DevOps Engineer III to own and optimize CI/CD pipelines and the software infrastructure for rocket-engine development in Seattle, WA. This hands-on role focuses on building, maintaining, and improving automation, containers, and development environments across teams.

You will work with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting to increase throughput, reliability, and reproducibility in a safety-critical aerospace setting, with a base salary aligned to

Qualifications

• B.S. degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or a similar software engineering role.
• Linux administration on RHEL and/or CentOS; comfortable managing services, filesystems, users, and permissions.
• Docker: building and maintaining images and Dockerfiles, working with registries, volumes, and Docker Compose.
• Virtual machines and hypervisors — provisioning, configuring, and troubleshooting virtualized build and development environments.
• Ansible for provisioning and configuration management of physical and virtual machines.
• GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Runners — designing, organizing, and maintaining pipelines.
• Artifact repository management (Artifactory or similar).
• Automation and scripting in Python and Shell.
• Git fundamentals — branching strategies, code review workflows, versioning.
• Core networking: SSH, TCP/UDP, routing basics, ports, and firewalling.
• Ability to learn fast, multitask, and drive tasks to completion.
• Ability to present technical concepts to peers and leadership, earn trust, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and the GitLab Runner fleet supporting engine software development, from unit test through delivery to development hardware and simulated environments.
• Own the container build and distribution path - Dockerfiles, base images, registries, and artifact repositories - including migration of Kaniko-based image builds to the go-forward toolchain.
• Provision and manage developer workstations, virtual machines, build servers, and containers as code using Ansible, driving toward reproducible, self-documenting infrastructure.
• Develop automation and tooling in Python and Shell to eliminate manual steps, reduce error rates, and improve build and test throughput.
• Act as the team's first line of support for Docker and CI issues across our software teams - triage failures, perform root cause analysis, and review other engineers' pipeline and container changes.
• Partner with external IT, Site Reliability Engineering, and infrastructure organizations to secure resources, resolve cross-boundary issues, and represent the team's needs.
• Identify weak points in our infrastructure management and propose and implement improvements rather than waiting to be asked.
• Maintain the tooling that supports our safety-critical software development process, including static analysis infrastructure and the licensing, entitlement, and availability of those tools.

Skills

Linux Admin

Docker

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Python

Shell

Git Fundamentals

Networking

Virtual Machines

Troubleshooting

Education

B.S. in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

Kaniko

Artifactory

Job description

Blue Origin seeks an Infrastructure DevOps Engineer III to own and optimize CI/CD pipelines and the software infrastructure for rocket-engine development in Seattle, WA. This hands-on role focuses on building, maintaining, and improving automation, containers, and development environments across teams.

You will work with GitLab CI/CD, Ansible, Python, and shell scripting to increase throughput, reliability, and reproducibility in a safety-critical aerospace setting, with a base salary aligned to