DevOps Engineer

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a brand-new astronomical facility currently under construction in Chile, with headquarters based in Tucson, Arizona. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will undertake the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) which will be the largest and most comprehensive astronomy survey of its kind. Rubin Observatory will enable countless discoveries in almost every area of modern astronomical research-discoveries made possible by the team that built the Rubin Observatory system, and by the global science community that Rubin Observatory serves.

This position is based in La Serena, Chile, and work at summit facilities, above 2500 meters, may be required as well as after-hours duties in support of the Rubin Observatory construction, integration, and commissioning processes.

**Essential Functions**:

- Develops, deploys, configures, tests and maintains general IT services.
- Develops DevOps infrastructure deployment/provisioning.
- Develops IT service and equipment monitoring and reporting tools.
- Develops and maintains IT configuration management solutions.
- Develops test automation frameworks in collaboration with the rest of the team.
- Helps tune performance and ensures high availability of IT infrastructure.
- Creates tools to help teams make the most out of the available infrastructure.
- Assists Senior Engineers in the development of automation utilities and scripts.
- Monitors and collects metrics and alerts.
- Participates in the development of the system’s architecture for the Rubin Observatory Chile.

**Required Education/Experience/Skills/Abilities**
- 3+ years of experience as a Technical Specialist.
- Experience in at least one programming language such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Rust.
- Experience with a unit testing framework such as pytest, rspec, go test, or cargo test.
- Working knowledge of a distributed version control system such as git or mercurial and familiarity with hosted version control services such as GitHub or GitLab.
- Basic experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
- Experience with code review using a collaborative review tool such as GitHub pull request, GitLab merge request or Gerrit Code Review
- Experience with an issue tracking system such as GitHub issues or Jira.
- Strong presentation, verbal communication, and written communications skills.
- Must be proficient in spoken and written English.
- Technical understanding and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain.
- Must have a valid Driver’s License; clean driving record; ability to drive a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

**Preferred Education/Experience/Skills/Abilities**:

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- History of successful contributions to at least one open-source project.
- Experience collaborating as part of a Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps team.
- Have provisioned Kubernetes clusters with rancher, rke, kOps, or kubeadm.
- Experience working with helm charts.
- Experience with a hosted CI/CD system such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Travis CI.
- Experience with version control tools including experience with branching, pull request, code merging, etc.
- Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
- Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Prometheus, Icinga, Grafana, Telegraf/InfluxDB, Kafka, Logstash, Splunk, OpenSearch, and Kibana.
- Familiarity with an Enterprise Linux (Centos, etc.) distribution or Fedora Linux.

**Physical Requirements**:
There are basic physical requirements that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position may be required to work at high elevation summit sites up to 2,715 meters above sea level, carrying out physical activities such as going up and down stairs, as well as, occasionally, working in adverse weather conditions. This position requires passing a medical examination post Offer and, if medically necessary, at specified intervals while employed.

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At Rubin Observatory we are committed to diversity and inclusion. Our managing Organization, AURA, as a leader in the astronomical community, develops and supports programs that advance our organizational commitment to diversity, broaden participation, and encourage the advancement of diversity throughout the astronomical scientific workforce. Learn more at: Diversity and Inclusion - AURA Astronomy (aura-astronomy.org)

**AURA** offers an excellent benefits package including paid time off and retirement plan contributions, competitive salary commensurate with experience, and a very attractive work environment.

**The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)** is a consortium of over 40 US institutions and three inte