Senior DevOps Engineering Lead – AWS, Kubernetes

Rocket Lab; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Cash incentives

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division seeks a Senior Manager, DevOps Engineering to lead a team of software development operations engineers deploying applications for advanced space payloads at the Chantilly, VA site. The role emphasizes AWS cloud architecture, automated IaC, and containerized deployments in complex environments.

You will drive best practices, collaborate with project leaders, and ensure policy compliance with Security/IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 1-3 years of software engineering or devops management experience.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance and Counterintelligence Polygraph.
• 10+ years of experience in architecting AWS cloud solutions with EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, or S3.
• Experience with DevOps tools and pipelines such as Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, or Artifactory.
• Ability to design, enable, deliver scalable and automated IaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience working with containerization technologies Kubernetes or Docker.
• Experience with cloud network resources such as VPC, URL, DNS, ACLs, security, and routing tables.
• Background in scripting or coding with Java, Python, Terraform, or Bash.
• Experience with cross-compilation for embedded systems.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration.
• CompTIA Security+ certification (or in pursuit of).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers across business level functions – enterprise tools, finance tools, engineering development process, software development integration and deployment.
• Drive best practices for AWS Cloud based architecture and development and production environments.
• Collaborate with project leaders and team members to meet mission objectives.
• Work directly with Security and IT for policy assurance.
• Develop and support pipelines that include automation and configurations for containers, data management, and release/deployment solutions for programs.
• Automate software deployments into varied and complex environments using virtual machines, container technologies, Kubernetes, Cloud environments, and bare metal servers.
• Support engagements related to assessing, refactoring and identifying opportunities for existing applications to leverage modern application architectures (e.g. containers).
• Lead Agile sprints and associated activities.
• Support onsite work, as well as travel or off-site work, as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

DevOps management

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Java

Python

Security clearance TS/SCI

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Bitbucket

Jenkins

SonarQube

Artifactory

Terraform

Job description

Rocket Lab’s Optical Systems division seeks a Senior Manager, DevOps Engineering to lead a team of software development operations engineers deploying applications for advanced space payloads at the Chantilly, VA site. The role emphasizes AWS cloud architecture, automated IaC, and containerized deployments in complex environments.

You will drive best practices, collaborate with project leaders, and ensure policy compliance with Security/IT.