DevOps Architect-RS 4

Company: United Launch Alliance
Location: Denver
Posted on: April 19, 2019

Job Description:

United Launch Alliance is hiring! We are seeking a DevOps Architect-RS 4 to join our team in Centennial, CO.

RS = Rocket Scientist

At ULA, it really is rocket science!

Are you interested in joining America's most experienced team of rocket scientists? Do you have what it takes to be a part of the most reliable rocket launch team - and soon the team to return humans to space from American soil? ULA is America's #1 space launch provider with 100% mission success on over 100 consecutive launches. Our vision is to Save Lives, Explore the Universe and Connect the World.

The ULA team is working on products that will change how we think about space flight. Are you ready to join our highly talented team and work on something that will profoundly change the way we interpret and leverage data, fly launch vehicles, spark the next generation, and become a pioneer in creating and maintaining next generation software solutions.

We are a highly collaborative team that prefers short development iterations and embraces a "fail-fast" mentality (fail fast, fail often, react quickly and learn from every failure). You will work in a fast-paced, collaborative development environment architecting, designing, developing and testing cutting-edge software solutions.

The DevOps Architect will be an automation advocate responsible for providing leadership, guidance, and direction for pipeline automation to product owners, designers, and software engineers with cyber security and development responsibilities within the engineering team. The ideal candidate should possess a combination of strong technical knowledge of the modern tech stack, possess a solid proven software development background, experience in securing coding principles and be familiar with Lean Startup, Agile and DevOps methodologies.

The candidate will partner with engineering teams across software engineering to design, develop, install, monitor and test standardized solutions that meet established security control objectives and implement efficient solutions. The candidate will partner with development teams and educate them on product security principles across the product life-cycle (concept, development, operation and iteration) and influence the design and envisioned use to help teams create products that are secure by design, secure in use and secured through partnership. The candidate will be an advocate and practitioner of DevSecOps implementing both a security culture and a tools-driven and highly automated approach to bake security requirements into developer's workflow for safer software sooner.

ULA Job Description:
Designs, develops, operates and maintains software and firmware components and computing systems software to be applied to and integrated with engineering, scientific and manufacturing requirements. Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of such engineering applications and products such as flight control and display systems, mechanical and electrical systems. Interfaces with customers, suppliers, application users and other technical and support personnel.

External Additional Requirements

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related technical degree

* 6 to 10 Years of relatable experience.

* 6+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering, release engineering, and/or software configuration management

* Understanding of Software Security Architecture and Design, SDLC and the ability to clearly articulate best practices for software and application security

* Experience with public cloud environments and technologies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

* Experience in DevOps environments and automating security controls into the CI/CD process

* Experience working with a multiple CICD pipeline and continuously improving the release process for many products with competing timelines

* Development experience in Python, Ruby, AWK or Shell

* Must be highly collaborative with cross-function teams

* Server management experience in infrastructure management and issue resolution, in a large-scale production environment

* Working knowledge of software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems and experience automating build and release processes, build management, dependency management and continuous integration/deployment tools

* Experience with Agile development and methodologies and experience with Linux and UNIX; Understanding of service-oriented attitude with excellent problem solving and analytical skills

External Preferred Qualifications

* Understanding of large-scale distributed systems, centralized multi-tier architectures and decentralized (client/server) environment models, including, security, and monitoring

* Experience provisioning and managing operations within AWS

* Experience with container deployment and development lifecycles

* Expertise in building scalable, high performance teams that support entire pre-production lifecycle

* Extensive experience using virtualization technologies to enhance velocity of pre-production lifecycle environment

* Experience in engineering custom solutions to operational problems where needed

* Created and/or managed a security program and have conducted or led the response to security audits, attestations or adherence to compliance standards

* Experience in configuration management tools, monitoring, deployment automation, and orchestration tools ((Puppet, Ansible, Splunk/Kibana etc.)

* Proved track record of data and infrastructure stewardship mindset

* Build strong relationships with product teams and cultivate a culture of product security awareness and ownership, including the implementation and utilization of secure coding principles

* Stay current with SDLC enabling technologies, emerging threat landscape and predict impact of changing technologies

Functional Job Description
Safety to Self and Others: Must be able to perform all assigned tasks in a safe manner. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to repetitive motion injuries due to keyboarding or to cuts and bruises due to typical office accidents.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use computer and office equipment and to use hands to type, manipulate, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; talk; and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, bend, stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is typical of most office environments with telephones, personal interruptions, and background noises.

Mental Functions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate verbally and in writing and use interpersonal skills. The employee is regularly required to prioritize, multitask, analyze, interpret, coordinate, compile, evaluate, synthesize, compute, problem solve, concentrate, and think critically. The employee is occasionally required to copy, instruct, and negotiate.

Judgment and Decision-Making: Work is regularly assigned by self, supervisor, and departmental staff.

ULA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other categories protected by law.

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