The opportunity
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
What you'll do
Architect, design, implement, and manage enterprise-scale CI/CD pipelines and: platforms running on both on-premise VM infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
Lead automation of deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operations to: drive reliability, scalability, and efficiency across hundreds of on-premise servers, VMs, and containerized environments.
Define and enforce DevOps, SRE, and release engineering best practices,: standards, and security controls across on-premise VM and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Partner closely with software engineering, development, and operations teams: to streamline code integration, testing, delivery, and feedback loops.
Own system performance, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and optimization: of on-premise VM clusters and Kubernetes environments; drive root-cause analysis and long-term improvements.
Design, maintain, and enhance observability (logging, metrics, tracing,: alerting) for on-premise infrastructure using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Influx, Splunk, or equivalents.
What they're looking for
- Lead high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies: for on-premise VM and Kubernetes platforms, including planning, executing, and improving routine annual disaster recovery exercises.
- Administer, scale, and evolve CI/CD platforms, source control systems (e.g.,: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Bamboo, or modern equivalents), and the supporting on-premise Kubernetes clusters or VM-based infrastructure they run on.
- Propose, champion, and implement infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and: automated release processes for both VM and Kubernetes environments.
- Mentor junior engineers, review designs and code, and contribute to team: technical direction for on-premise infrastructure.