Principal Deployment Platform Lead: Kubernetes & CI/CD

SciTec; Dayton (OH); In loco; USD 151.000 - 201.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match

Company-paid health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Hospital indemnity insurance

Voluntary accident insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Profit sharing plan

Performance bonus

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Flexible work hours

Descrizione del lavoro

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to serve as Deployment Environments Domain Lead. You will establish repeatable, secure, observable, and reliable practices for building, packaging, deploying, and operating the software that supports our mission critical data processing, visualization, and operational workflows.

The ideal candidate has deep production experience with CI/CD, containerization, and Kubernetes, and strong communication to mentor other engineers

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting production software systems.
• Deep experience with containerization (Docker and/or Podman), including image construction, optimization, and security.
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes, including resource management, scheduling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience packaging and deploying workloads with Helm or similar tools.
• Experience designing and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Experience with local Kubernetes environments (Minikube, KinD) for development and integration testing.
• Experience with observability, logging, and monitoring for containerized workloads.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Go, Bash, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Comfortable working in Linux development environments.
• Strong technical writing, mentoring, and cross-team communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering practices through technical credibility.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Mansioni

• Assess current build, packaging, and deployment practices, recurring problems, and capability gaps across engineering teams.
• Define evaluation criteria to select and maintain a Core Collection of recommended deployment technologies, patterns, and practices.
• Document recommended technologies, valid alternatives, and exceptional cases through decision guides, reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
• Build and maintain validated reference pipelines, Helm charts, container images, and starter templates for common deployment use cases.
• Guide CI/CD pipeline design, automation, artifact management, and reproducible builds.
• Establish practices for container image construction, dependency management, image optimization, and image security.
• Guide Kubernetes architecture, scheduling, resource management, and workload orchestration.
• Establish practices for Helm and other deployment packaging, configuration management, and secrets handling.
• Improve local and development environments, environment provisioning, and integration testing workflows.
• Guide deployment strategies, rollback, release promotion, and compatibility management.
• Establish practices for health checks, observability, resource limits, scaling, resilience, disaster recovery, and software supply-chain security.
• Partner with engineers through pair programming, design and code reviews, troubleshooting, and focused workshops to support consistent adoption of recommended practices.
• Collaborate with Data Storage and Workload Communications domain leads on cross-domain problems such as memory pressure, pod restarts, connection saturation, and end-to-end throughput and latency.
• Coordinate with enterprise infrastructure and platform teams on ownership boundaries for cluster operations, cloud accounts, networking, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Periodically reassess and update recommendations and documentation as technologies, workloads, and engineering needs change.
• Track adoption and engineering outcomes against established baselines and report results to engineering leadership.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conoscenze

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Python

Container security

Cross-team communication

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or related field

Strumenti

Helm

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Minikube

KinD

Terraform

Descrizione del lavoro

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to serve as Deployment Environments Domain Lead. You will establish repeatable, secure, observable, and reliable practices for building, packaging, deploying, and operating the software that supports our mission critical data processing, visualization, and operational workflows.

The ideal candidate has deep production experience with CI/CD, containerization, and Kubernetes, and strong communication to mentor other engineers