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Vast

Vast

www.vastspace.com

1 Job

960 Employees

About the Company

Founded in 2021 by Jed McCaleb, Vast is developing humanity’s next-generation space stations and pioneering the path to long-term living and thriving in space. Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station, is currently in development and is expected to launch in 2026. Vast is also developing Haven-2, the proposed successor to the International Space Station (ISS), designed to serve NASA’s Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) program as a micro-gravity laboratory in space. Vast’s long-term ambition is to create artificial gravity habitations that enable humans to live in space, reaffirming its commitment to ensuring a spacefaring future for all.

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Vast
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IT DevOps Engineer
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**Job Title:** IT DevOps Engineer **Role Summary:** Design, build, and secure modern cloud‑first and bare‑metal IT infrastructure to support the development of artificial‑gravity space stations. Lead end‑to‑end provisioning, automation, monitoring, and incident response while enforcing zero‑trust and security‑as‑code practices. **Expectations:** - 3+ years of experience designing, deploying, and managing highly available security services (e.g., SIEM). - Proven expertise with Kubernetes (including security features) and cloud environments. - Strong background in DevOps toolchains (CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitOps). - Ability to collaborate across data‑center, hardware, and networking teams. - U.S. person status for export‑control compliance. **Key Responsibilities:** - Architect and harden Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and cloud platforms, implementing isolation, encryption, and policy enforcement. - Develop secure provisioning pipelines for bare‑metal servers (DHCP, DNS, PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot) with measured boot, secure boot, and hardware trust. - Build and maintain security automation tooling (Go, Python, Bash) for provisioning, monitoring, and continuous validation. - Manage infrastructure as code using GitOps (Git, Flux, Terraform) with security scanning and policy‑as‑code controls. - Design and operate monitoring/alerting pipelines; integrate observability tools (e.g., Falco, eBPF, OSQuery). - Produce and keep up‑to‑date documentation, runbooks, and security procedures for repeatable operations. - Conduct threat modeling, risk assessments, and drive remediation to reduce attack surface. - Support incident response: containment, analysis, and post‑incident infrastructure improvements. **Required Skills:** - Kubernetes administration and security (RBAC, PodSecurity, admission controllers, runtime security). - Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi). - Linux system administration and secure boot provisioning. - Scripting/programming: Go, Python, Bash. - GitOps workflows (Git, Flux). - Networking and security fundamentals (zero‑trust, segmentation, authentication). - Experience with observability and security tooling (SIEM, Falco, eBPF, OSQuery). **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience. - Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are a plus. - Must meet U.S. export‑control eligibility (U.S. person).
Long beach, United states
On site
Junior
14-12-2025