Space Systems DevOps Engineer - Omitron Inc

Position Overview

Responsibilities

• Embed with the orbital analyst team to translate mission and end-user requirements into infrastructure configuration, tuning, and automation.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between the systems and infrastructure team and analyst mission users, ensuring system behavior meets operational needs and closing the gap between what is deployed and what the mission requires.
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks spanning compute, storage, network, and virtualization that affect analyst-facing applications and interactive sessions; isolate variables and validate hypotheses with controlled benchmarking before changing production.
• Administer, patch, and harden Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems in an air-gapped, DISA STIG-compliant environment (SELinux enforcing, Secure Boot).
• Configure and maintain enterprise virtualization (VMware vSphere/ESXi and VDI) and high-performance shared storage, including kernel, storage-client, and high-throughput network tuning.
• Monitor and maintain critical network services, storage, and infrastructure to ensure availability and performance of mission systems.
• Support vulnerability management and patch remediation in coordination with the ISSE/ISSO, verifying successful deployment of fixes.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code automation for repeatable, auditable deployments in a disconnected environment.
• Develop and maintain Python 3 tooling for monitoring, lifecycle and end-of-life tracking, operational alerting, and routine automation.
• Debug and maintain existing code and data-processing workflows, providing bug fixes and facilitating ongoing development of legacy tooling.
• Conduct peer and code review and maintain clear documentation to ensure code quality, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with development teams and project managers to deliver high-quality solutions that meet customer needs, and participate in planning and retrospective meetings to improve the delivery process.

Minimum Requirements

• US Citizenship required
• Security Clearance: An active DoD Secret clearance is required. Candidates must be willing to complete a background investigation and application for upgrade to a TS/SCI clearance, if necessary.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience.
• 4+ years of combined experience across systems administration, DevOps, and/or software engineering (or 2+ years with a graduate degree).
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CCNA-Security), or the ability to obtain one within a defined onboarding period.