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Senior Manager, DevOps Engineering - Rocket Lab USA
Software Engineer
Lead a high‑performing DevOps team to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for space launch systems, driving automation, reliability, and continuous delivery across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform environments.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain end‑to‑end CI/CD pipelines for mission‑critical software and firmware releases.
- Lead a cross‑functional team of engineers to implement scalable, highly available Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
- Define and enforce infrastructure as code standards using Terraform, ensuring repeatable and auditable deployments.
- Drive continuous improvement of monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to meet stringent uptime SLAs.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and operations teams to integrate security, compliance, and performance best practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles, with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
- Deep expertise in AWS services (EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation) and container orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Proficient in Terraform, Git, Docker, and scripting languages (Bash, Python).
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Excellent communication skills and a proven track record of building high‑performing engineering teams.
Skills
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