Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Ground Software

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Ground Software

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will work with our Flight and Ground software teams to operate, scale, and automate operations for key software and mission control systems. These include command & control systems, telemetry databases, continuous integration systems and other software systems critical to our mission. You will be one of the first hires for this team, autonomously and cross-functionally leading our DevOps efforts as we continue to expand.

You will improve the state of operations for key software systems at Astranis, with respect to reliability, maintainability as we expand to a fleet of satellites and their supporting services.

This role will contribute to both commercial and US Government programs.

Role

• Own and maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters
• Ensure the reliability and availability of services
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems
• Establish robust deployment practices and infrastructure
• Set up and manage sandbox/staging environments
• Manage enterprise vendor services within the corporate cluster (Github, Artifactory, etc)

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Information Technology, Computer Science)
• 7+ years of as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps or DevSecOps experience
• 7+ years of experience on Linux
• Experience with Kubernetes in a production environment
• Experience with shell programming (e.g. Bash)
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without much supervision

Bonus

• Experience with Go or Rust
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Github Enterprise
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with Bazel