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DevOps Engineer

Tempe, AZ 85284

Posted: 09/08/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: DevOps Job Number: 25054 Workplace Type: Hybrid

Job Description

Compensation: DOE 

What We’re Looking For:
If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Software Engineer opening with client’s Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Software Engineer within the Ground Systems Development team, you will apply cutting edge technologies to rapidly develop and deploy ground system operations and user service capabilities within a satellite operations environment. Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.
 
What You’ll Do:
  • Develop high performing/scalable CI/CD architecture to meet the requirements of the SDA project
  • Engage in cross-team App Cyber Security, Ground and Constellation development to support AWS PaaS deployment environment and automation.
  • Develop Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
  • Create or maintain build environments for software products
  • Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
  • Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
  • Follow existing processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
  • Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly through briefings and documentation
  • Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline
  • 8+ years software programming experience
  • Coding experience on Agile based teams
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
  • Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
  • Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
  • Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
  • Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met
  • Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software
  • Ability to comprehend technical documentation
  • Have a positive attitude to take on ever increasing software development tasks
  • Passion for working in a team driven environment consisting of operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers
Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:
  • Experience with the following technologies:
  • Design and implementation of Kubernetes/EKS / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD
  • Design and implementation CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket)
  • Design and implementation Kubernetes auto-deployment to AWS (Helm Charts)
  • Linux based environments and bash shell scripting
  • Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl
  • RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / WebSockets
  • XML / JSON / SQL
  • SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
  • js / Apache Web Server
  • Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)
  • Evaluate Fortify findings and determine response to the findings
  • Evaluate SonarQube findings and determine response to the findings
  • Assist in SW development response to security findings
  • Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence
  • Micro services architectures
  • Automated testing frameworks
  • Gov and non-Gov Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments

We look forward to reviewing your application. We encourage everyone to apply - even if every box isn’t checked for what you are looking for or what is required.

PDSINC, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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