Outside Analytics has recently become a proud subsidiary of SMX, marking an exciting collaboration that enhances our collective capabilities to deliver cutting-edge digital transformation solutions. 

Are you interested in the next generation of Space Force Remote Sensing capabilities? At Outside Analytics we're on the ground floor of helping across the future remote sensing ecosystem across all orbital regimes (LEO, MEO, HEO, and GEO)! We build, integrate, and operationally support our customer's emerging space-ground systems to include real-time data processing frameworks, sensor data processing, and data visualization. We are teamed with the most passionate companies in industry, dedicated to bringing best-of-breed capabilities to address our customers most pressing needs.

FORGE-MDPAP is the next generation missile warning processing system for the US Space Force. The MDPAP Visualization team leverages web based, Unreal Engine, and backend data ingest and manipulation technologies to seamlessly present in-depth real-time sensor and event data visualization and analytics information to Space Force Guardians to prosecute a "no-fail" mission.

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for the FORGE MDP/AP missile warning system who can help the Visualization subsystem operate and maintain high-performance and reliable services for our on-prem development infrastructure as well as integrate with the production environments. This position will be responsible for integration of a US Space Force mission critical data visualization software suite with the development and production infrastructure

Position location is on-site in Boulder, CO 5 days per week.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of the observability tools and analyze metrics capturing the environment utilization as well as mission performance of the software.
• Work with software teams to specify and optimize hardware environment usage.
• Lead problem diagnosis efforts of the deployed mission system.
• Develop automation for the deployment of the software stack.

Required Skills & Experience 

• 5+ years experience operating high reliability environments.
• Ability to implement observability toolsets to instrument software and hardware utilization.
• Practical hands-on troubleshooting techniques with demonstrated fault isolation and root cause analysis experience.
• Experience in building automation tools (e.g. deployment automation).
• This position will require the ability to obtain a U.S. government DoD Secret Security clearance

Desired Skills & Experience 

• Currently active U.S. government DoD security clearance
• Proficiency with the following tools/technologies:
  • K8s/OpenShift
  • Prometheus/Tempo/Grafana
  • Helm charts
  • Python
  • CI/CD pipeline configuration
  • NATS data layer
  • Container (Docker) management
  • Cyber security certifications (e.g. CISSP)
  • Linux system administration (RHEL)

Application Deadline:  April 14, 2025

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