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