Senior Platform Engineer, Inversion

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering
• Expertise in DevOps best practices
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Experience with one or more CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Podman) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Expertise in IaaS (AWS and GCP)
• Expertise in IaC (Terraform)
• Expertise in database administration and network administration
• Familiarity with system observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Desirable

• As a Senior Platform Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to develop and manage the infrastructure that supports the simulation and test environments for our flight systems
• The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions
• You will play a key role in the design and implementation of infrastructure-agnostic platforms and self-service tools that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack
• Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility
• Provision, deploy, and maintain infrastructure to support simulation workflows, including high-performance computing (HPC), software-in-the-loop (SIL) testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Leverage infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to enable scalability and resource optimization
• Leverage automation and infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage infrastructure efficiently
• Leverage containerization and orchestration to enable modern, scalable, and resilient application deployments
• Work closely with developers/engineers to design, implement, and manage continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to improve iteration speed and flight system reliability
• Configure network hardware, manage cloud resources, and ensure network security and performance
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows