[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer @Slingshot Aerospace

Role Description

This is a full-time, remote role for a Senior DevOps Engineer. The Senior DevOps Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). They will manage continuous integration pipelines, support system administration tasks, and ensure optimal performance, availability, and security of Linux-based systems. Additionally, the individual will collaborate closely with software developers to enhance deployment workflows and drive improvements in the overall system architecture.

Your Mission (Should you choose to accept it)

• Partner with offshore and onshore engineering teams to design, implement, and scale cloud-native infrastructure supporting a new customer portal and ongoing platform refactoring efforts.
• Architect, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based environments that power production systems, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code initiatives (primarily Terraform) to automate provisioning, configuration, and environment consistency across AWS.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and developer experience.
• Integrate and operationalize MLOps practices, enabling efficient deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of machine learning workflows.
• Embed DevSecOps best practices across the platform, incorporating security controls, compliance requirements, and monitoring into the development lifecycle.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual processes and increase system reliability and repeatability.
• Collaborate closely with Platform, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and continuously improve system architecture.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively implement improvements to optimize availability and cost efficiency.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis efforts, driving long-term fixes and ensuring lessons learned translate into system improvements.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and practices, such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Software Development, including scripting and programming to support automation and management of DevOps workflows.
• Strong understanding of Continuous Integration and deployment pipelines.
• Expertise in System Administration, including network configuration and troubleshooting.
• Extensive experience with Linux systems, including performance optimization and security management.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.

Bonus Cargo

• Experience with MLOps.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Location

Remote, US

Salary

$136,000-$237,000

Company Description

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.