Senior DevOps Engineer I — Observability & AI Ops

Rocket Lab USA; Littleton (CO); On-site; USD 114,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Stock equity / equity grant

Comprehensive benefits

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Rocket Lab USA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer I to build, operate, and enhance the observability stack across mission-critical systems in Littleton, CO. You will design scalable telemetry, dashboards, and alerting, partnering with Space Systems to improve reliability and security of software for space missions.

You will implement AI-driven automation, integrate AWS/GCP telemetry, and manage deployments with Terraform and Git.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or a related infrastructure discipline.
• Hands-on experience operating and improving production observability and monitoring platforms.
• Demonstrated expertise in AI/ML technologies with hands-on experience building AI-driven automation systems.
• Experience with AWS and GCP cloud services.
• Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform and collaborating through Git-based workflows.
• U.S. citizenship is required, due to program requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and continuously improve the organization's observability stack, including Grafana, Grafana Mimir, kube-prometheus-stack, and Grafana Alloy.
• Design and maintain scalable metrics collection, ingestion, retention, and query patterns for Kubernetes and cloud-based workloads.
• Develop and maintain Grafana dashboards that provide actionable insights to engineering teams and leadership.
• Design, tune, and maintain alerting and notification workflows that reduce noise and enable timely, effective incident response.
• Partner with engineering teams to define meaningful service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and monitoring standards.
• Improve observability coverage by identifying telemetry gaps, analyzing trends, and implementing durable instrumentation and monitoring improvements.
• Integrate AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail telemetry into the observability platform to support operational visibility, security monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage observability infrastructure through version-controlled, automated deployments using Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive continuous improvement through data-driven analysis of platform reliability, telemetry quality, dashboard adoption, and alert effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot complex monitoring, telemetry, and alerting issues across AWS, and GCP environments.
• Work with development teams through code reviews and integrated pipelines to ensure observability is built in from the start.
• Design and implement AI agents that detect, analyze, and troubleshoot software testing failures with minimal human intervention
• Build and maintain AI-powered quality automation ecosystems that monitor CI/CD pipelines across multiple programs and platforms

Skills

Observability

Grafana

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

AI/ML

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Grafana

Grafana Mimir

kube-prometheus-stack

Time Series Databases

Kubecost

Job description

Rocket Lab USA seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer I to build, operate, and enhance the observability stack across mission-critical systems in Littleton, CO. You will design scalable telemetry, dashboards, and alerting, partnering with Space Systems to improve reliability and security of software for space missions.

You will implement AI-driven automation, integrate AWS/GCP telemetry, and manage deployments with Terraform and Git.