Infrastructure DevOps Engineer III

Blue Origin; Washington; Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Blue Origin in the United States is seeking a DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and scalable build environments for rocket engine software. The role focuses on automating pipelines, managing containers, and enabling reproducible development across teams.

You will work with GitLab, Ansible, Docker, and artifact repositories, ensuring reliability and security. The position requires hands-on work with pipelines, containers, and infrastructure as code,

Formación

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for engine software development.
• Experience with Linux systems administration and virtualization in development environments.
• Proficiency with container technologies and artifact repositories.
• Automation and tooling development in Python and Shell.
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving to support a safety-critical codebase.
• US citizenship or eligible work status.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Runner fleet across development stages.
• Own container build/distribution paths and migration to evolving toolchains.
• Provision and manage developer workstations, VMs, and build servers as code.
• Develop automation to improve build/test throughput and reduce errors.
• Provide first-line support for Docker and CI issues across teams.
• Collaborate with IT and SRE to secure resources and resolve cross-boundary issues.
• Identify infrastructure weaknesses and implement improvements.
• Maintain tooling for the safety-critical software development process.

Conocimientos

DevOps

CI/CD

Linux administration

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Ansible

Python scripting

Shell scripting

Educación

B.S. in computer science or related technical field

Herramientas

GitLab

GitLab Runners

Docker

Kaniko

Ansible

Artifactory

Rust (preferred)

Descripción del empleo

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

As part of a small team, you will own and evolve the software infrastructure behind avionics software development for Blue Origin rocket engines. Our teams deliver the embedded software that monitors and controls fully autonomous rocket engines, and everything they build flows through the pipelines, containers, and development machines you maintain. This is a hands‑on position: you will be the person other engineers come to when a build breaks, a pipeline needs to run somewhere new, or a development environment needs to be reproducible.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, initiative, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

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 the existing 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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field. Other engineering or science degrees will be considered with relevant experience.
• 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, including build/test/deploy flows, secrets handling, and release automation.
• 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 and professional 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Rust - our infrastructure tooling spans several languages, and Rust is the one we are investing in most.
• Working knowledge of C and C++.
• Familiarity with Kaniko. We are phasing it out, so experience with it is directly useful during the transition.
• Experience managing a fleet of developer machines, virtual machines, and containers as code at scale.
• Monitoring and observability tooling for infrastructure and pipeline health.
• Experience administering static analysis tooling for embedded or sa