Cloud Operations Engineer

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration. As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team GeoControl Systems, a teammate company.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will:

• Developing new cloud-native platform services spanning all three major cloud environments

• Developing best practices for cloud-native application development and promoting them within the organization

• Administering NASA cloud networks and managing requests for deployment of COTS and Cloud Native applications into cloud environments

• Writing quality code, providing quality and engaged code reviews for peers

• Working with Managed Kubernetes offering across all three major cloud providers

• Integrating cloud managed AI and data services with other bespoke and open-source Kubernetes applications

• Developing best practices for cloud-native application development and promoting them within the organization

• Identifying opportunities to abstract Prospective Project requirements and develop Enterprise-grade, multi-tenant Platform Services

• Collaborate with NASA security and compliance teams to ensure teams are adhering to industry best practices and regulatory requirements

• Working directly with NASA human spaceflight missions like Orion, Lunar Gateway, Artemis​

• Perform other duties as required

Requirements

• *This position has been

• posted at multiple levels. Depending on the candidate's experience,

• requirements, and business needs, we reserve the right to consider candidates

• at any level for which this position has been advertised.*

• Requisition

• Qualifications:

• Typically

• requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification in a related area

• and normally possess 10 years of experience in the field or in a related

• area.

• Strong

• experience with Kubernetes in production

• Ability

• to manage and use GitLab (preferably very proficient)

• Hands-on

• experience with CI/CD pipeline tools

• Observability

• Monitoring tools such as Grafana and SuperSet

• Proficiency

• with Infrastructure-as-Code utilizing Terraform for infrastructure

• automation and/or open source alternatives (OpenTofu)

• Extensive

• Linux experience (familiarity with Windows also preferred, but not

• required)

• Expert

• in at least one programming language (Go and Python is preferred)

• Experience

• with Python, SQL (and R is preferable)

• Working

• understanding of Machine Learning Model Lifecycle management (is

• preferred)

• Requisition Preferences:

• Solution-oriented

• mindset, accepts feedback with enthusiasm

• Effectively

• communicates with team members: clear status updates to direct report,

• regularly establishes unanimous decisions with peers

• Self-motivated

• and self-managing, with strong organizational skills

• Experience

• architecting and building cloud-native applications

• Demonstrable

• success and confidence in owning the full project lifecycle

• Good

• instincts for identifying opportunities for abstraction

• Balances

• individual project development tasks at hand with overall platform and

• company goals

Benefits

• GCS health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Typical benefits offered include flexible work schedules and opportunities to work remotely, educational reimbursement, retirement benefits (401K, Roth), health benefits, tax saving options, disability benefits, life and accident insurance, voluntary benefits, paid time off and paid holidays, and parental and pregnancy leave.