Assistant Software Developer Jobs in Cedar Park, TX

Job Summary:
Firefly Aerospace is a space and defense technology company that enables our world to launch, land, and operate in space. As a DevOps Engineer III, you will design, deploy, and operate the cloud and on-premises infrastructure that powers mission-critical spacecraft ground systems, ensuring reliable and scalable software platforms that support spacecraft operations and mission planning.
Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure supporting spacecraft and launch vehicle ground software systems.
• Deploy and operate containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and related orchestration technologies.
• Design and manage scalable environments for distributed microservice architectures supporting mission operations.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for provisioning and configuration management.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Argo CD, GitOps methodologies, and related DevOps tooling.
• Deploy and scale enterprise data platforms including message brokers, stream processing frameworks, databases, and observability systems.
• Design highly available and fault-tolerant architectures supporting mission-critical operations.
• Assist software development teams with application deployment, performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Design and implement cloud architectures within AWS utilizing services such as EKS, EC2, IAM, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and related technologies.
• Develop infrastructure solutions supporting multi-mission and multi-tenant ground system deployments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and IT teams to implement secure authentication, authorization, auditing, and compliance controls.
• Support capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, performance analysis, and system scalability assessments.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Support software deployments across development, integration, test, staging, and production environments.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness activities.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and technology evaluations to improve reliability, scalability, and maintainability of Firefly ground systems.
Qualifications:
Required:
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• Experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm in production environments.
• Experience designing and supporting distributed microservice architectures.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Argo CD, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure within AWS.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar platforms.
• Experience administering Linux-based systems in production environments.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals including load balancing, TLS, DNS, VPNs, routing, and firewall concepts.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization solutions using IAM, SSO, LDAP, Active Directory, OAuth2, OIDC, or similar technologies.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and operational support practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance analysis skills across infrastructure, applications, and networking layers.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Preferred:
• MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience supporting spacecraft, aerospace, defense, satellite, or other mission-critical operational systems.
• Experience operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms supporting multiple applications and tenants.
• Experience deploying and scaling data streaming and event-driven platforms such as Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or similar technologies.
• Experience with time-series databases and telemetry-focused data architectures.
• Experience deploying and managing observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with AWS GovCloud and regulated cloud environments.
• Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks including NIST 800-171, RMF, CMMC, or related compliance standards.
• Active security clearance.
Company:
Firefly Aerospace is a space company that develops and operates launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles for commercial mission. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Cedar Park, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.