Space Systems DevOps Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Middle
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- 8+ years of combined experience across systems administration, DevOps, and/or software engineering, of which 2+ years are in a DoD, USAF, or USSF mission environment.
- Experience administering and hardening systems to DISA STIG / RMF standards (SELinux, Secure Boot, air-gapped operations).
- Experience tuning enterprise storage and high-throughput networking for high-performance or latency-sensitive workloads.
- Familiarity with configuration management and automation frameworks such as Ansible.
- Experience with enterprise virtualization and VDI (VMware vSphere / ESXi / Horizon).
- Familiarity with Python numerical and scientific libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and SciPy.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability and messaging tooling (e.g., Grafana, message brokers).
- Proficiency in Linux shell scripting; familiarity with Perl a plus for maintaining legacy tooling.
- Understanding of parallel programming concepts such as multiprocessing, multithreading, or async.
- Understanding of DevOps principles and agile methodologies (Scrum or Kanban).
- Knowledge of the Space Domain Awareness/Command and Control (SDA/C2) mission.
Full description
Space Systems DevOps EngineerCompany: Omitron, Inc.
Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA (on-site, classified)
Reports to: Systems Manager, Vandenberg
Position Overview
Omitron is seeking a full-time, mid-level Space Systems DevOps Engineer to serve as the technical bridge between our infrastructure and systems team and the orbital analysts who depend on it, in support of large-scale, mission-critical programs for the Space Domain Awareness/Command and Control (SDA/C2) mission. We are a company rooted in ensuring mission success across flight operations, trajectory design and analysis, software tools for Space Domain Awareness (SDA), and On-Orbit Spaceflight Safety.
In this role you will be embedded directly with the orbital analyst (OA) team while operating with the depth of a systems administrator and the automation discipline of a software engineer. You will translate mission and end-user requirements into concrete infrastructure configuration, tuning, and automation, ensuring the compute, storage, virtualization, and network environment consistently meets the throughput and latency demands of time-sensitive space domain awareness workloads. You will develop and maintain automation and tooling, administer and harden Linux systems in a secured, air-gapped environment, and resolve performance and reliability issues that span the full stack. The work supports the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 2 and 18th Space Defense Squadron at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
This position is ideal for an engineer who is equally comfortable writing Python automation, diagnosing a storage or network bottleneck, and sitting with an analyst to understand what the mission actually needs from the system.
Responsibilities
As a Space Systems DevOps Engineer, you are accountable for:
Embedded Mission Support
- 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.
Systems and Infrastructure
- 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.