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.