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Vast · 1 day ago

IT DevOps Engineer

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$140K/yr - $307K/yr

3+ years exp

Vast is dedicated to advancing space exploration by building artificial gravity space stations. They are seeking an IT DevOps Engineer to develop and support the systems necessary for the design and construction of these space habitats, focusing on building a modern IT infrastructure and enhancing security and productivity.

Defense & Space

Culture & Values

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Architect and secure Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and cloud environments, emphasizing isolation, encryption, and policy enforcement

Develop and manage secure provisioning for bare metal systems, including DHCP, DNS, PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot, and Linux, with an emphasis on measured boot, secure boot, and hardware trust

Build and maintain security tooling and automation (Go, Python, Bash) for provisioning, monitoring, and continuous security validation across environments

Collaborate with data center operations, hardware, and networking teams to enforce physical security, network segmentation, and zero-trust principles

Manage infrastructure configuration using GitOps (Git, Flux, Terraform) with security scanning and policy-as-code controls

Establish monitoring and alerting pipelines to detect, investigate, and respond to security events in infrastructure and cloud systems

Maintain and improve system documentation, runbooks, and security procedures for consistent, auditable, and repeatable infrastructure operations

Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments on infrastructure components, driving remediation to reduce the attack surface

Support incident response activities, including containment, analysis, and post-incident improvements to infrastructure security

Qualification

KubernetesCloud infrastructureSecurity toolingDevOps best practicesLinuxIncident responseCollaborationDocumentation

Required

3+ years experience designing, deploying, and managing highly available self-hosted security services such as a SIEM

2+ years of experience in building modern DevOps tools & best practices: CI/CD systems, deployment tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)

Deep expertise with the cloud and Kubernetes

Understanding of networking/security/auth constructs and requirements

Preferred

Experience with Kubernetes security (RBAC, PodSecurity, admission controllers, policy enforcement, and runtime security tooling)

Experience building and maintaining observability pipelines (Falco, eBPF, OSQuery, or similar tooling)

Proficiency with Linux and Kubernetes bootstrapping with a focus on secure provisioning

Experience collaborating with facilities, hardware, or network teams to enforce physical and logical security in a data center environment

Benefits

100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents

Flexible paid time off for exempt staff and up to 10 days of vacation for non-exempt staff

Paid parental leave

Short and long-term disability insurance

Life insurance

Access to a 401(k) retirement plan

One Medical membership

ClassPass credits

Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health

Other discounts and perks

Exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge

Lunch subsidized as part of Vast’s ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees

Company

Vast

Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers.

Founded in 2021

Long Beach, California, US

501-1000 employees