NASA Platform Engineer

Location

Houston, TX | United States

Job description

MRI Technologies has partnered with NASA since 1988 to deliver software solutions that meet the complex operational environment of space flight. MRI, a woman-owned technologies and engineering services company, has a need for an experienced Platform Engineer to support our EAST 2 Contract.

NASA is on a mission to enhance cloud services and modernize its development environments throughout the organization. As a Platform Engineer your mission will be to ensure that all of our systems and services run reliably and support our users' needs. You will be in charge of monitoring system health, as well as creating automation tooling to automate routine tasks.

The MRI developer team is a group of passionate developers, working closely together to identify problems at NASA. We are passionate about open source software and take a very pragmatic approach when evaluating the tooling, languages, and frameworks used on a given project. This position is 100% remote, working with a fantastic team of developers from across the country and collaborating with multiple NASA centers. On this team you get the best of both worlds, the start-up feel of a group of passionate developers and the excitement of working for NASA.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and deploying cloud-native systems with AWS and GCP, with Infrastructure-as-Code
• Setting up DevSecOps and GitOps workflows
• Developing and integrating platform services
• Working closely with application and data service engineering teams, to bring their solutions to NASA's cloud-native platform: AppDat
• Helping secure and protect NASA data and cloud systems
• Working directly with NASA leadership to create impact solutions and cloud-native services.
• Producing high quality technical proposals and documentation
• Solving complex problems with innovative solutions

Required Experience / Qualifications :

• BS degree and 10 years of relevant experience or 15 years of relevant experience
• Experience with Kubernetes in production
• Experience with CI/CD (preferably Gitlab CI)
• Understanding of GitOps Principals, preferably experience with a GitOps engine such as FluxCD or ArgoCD
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure automation tooling
• Extensive Linux experience
• Expert in at least one programming language (Go is preferred)
• Solution-oriented mindset, accepts feedback with enthusiasm
• Effectively communicates with team members: clear status updates to direct report, regularly establishes unanimous decisions with peers
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Ability to use GitLab (preferably very proficient)

Additional Information:

Due to the nature of the NASA work, candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation.

MRI Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Employment at MRI Technologies is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. MRI Technologies does not discriminate against any team member or applicant because of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, disability, age, genetic information, past or present military service, marital or domestic partner status, parental status, pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

As we are a Federal Contractor, most positions require the employee to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government background investigation. MRI also completes a pre-screening background check for anyone offered employment.

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