Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ursa Space Systems is a company focused on satellite intelligence platforms, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to architect and operate their infrastructure. The role involves bridging software development and cloud operations, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency while implementing CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure supporting Ursa Space production systems
- Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and AWS-native tooling
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices to enable fast, reliable, and secure deployments
- Improve backend scalability, reliability, and system performance to support high levels of concurrency and production traffic
- Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting systems to improve observability and incident response
- Develop and maintain self-service infrastructure tooling and platform automation to improve engineering productivity
- Support containerized applications and microservice-based architectures in cloud-native environments
- Implement security best practices across infrastructure, including IAM, RBAC, secrets management, and compliance controls
- Partner closely with software engineering teams on architecture, deployment, operational excellence, and production reliability initiatives
- Participate in architecture reviews, incident response, on-call rotations, and continuous improvement efforts across the platform
Skills
- B.S. in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline in which software development is a focus
- Industry experience in a Devops, SRE or software engineer role
- Strong experience with AWS Cloud stack like S3, ECS, CloudFront, EFS, API Gateway etc
- Experience using AI-assisted tools for rapid development and testing
- Expert knowledge of common software development tooling (Git, Docker, IDEs, linters, formatters, testing frameworks, terraform and python modularization)
- Experience with AWS GovCloud as well as associated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tooling
- Proficient in Terraform, AWS CDK, and Python
- Experience with NoSQL and/or SQL databases (Mongo, MySQL, Postgres)
- Experience with managing code and container repositories as well as CI/CD functions at scale (GitLab, Amazon ECR preferred)
- Familiarity with release processes for SaaS products
- Experience with microservice-based architectures and related design principles
- Organized and self motivated, able to successfully work with a remote team
- A creative, intuitive, and flexible mindset to approach complex problems and build innovative solutions
- A fast, reliable internet connection if you are working remotely is a must
- Experience in GIS tools and libraries like SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)
- Current AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation
- Discretionary PTO & Flexible Scheduling
- Stock Options
- 401(k) Match
- Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage for you and your dependents
- FSA & HSA Plans
- Employer-paid Life Insurance
- Employer-paid LTD and STD for Parental and Family Care
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Employee Resource Groups
- Educational Assistance Program
- Professional Development Opportunities
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