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Job Description:
Our Space Operations Program Directorate is passionate about making America the undisputed leader in Space because we understand that ensuring our nation’s security for future generations depends on it. Parsons creates game-changing space solutions by teaming highly respected subject matter experts with brilliant technologists. Do you want to be part of a team that is helping the government solve major national security challenges in the space domain? We need your help.
Our Team is seeking a highly experienced and certified Systems Operations Engineer to join our team. The Systems Operations Engineer will ensure the continuous health, availability, security, system currency, and repeatability of the organization’s cloud environments and core operational platforms. Serving as a hybrid system administrator and cloud operations specialist, you will manage core internal services—specifically Keycloak for identity management and Mattermost for team collaboration—while maintaining Terraform and Ansible automation scripts to guarantee rapid infrastructure reconstitution. You will actively drive system lifecycle management, ensuring all operating systems, software packages, dependencies, and platform applications remain fully updated, patched, and compliant against security vulnerabilities. You will work closely with development teams to support smooth, reliable application deployments across multi‑cloud, hybrid-cloud orchestration platforms. You will need experience with DoW cloud service offerings, software development processes, system authorization processes, and policies to create cohesive and integrated system architectures.
This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to critical missions by leveraging advanced cloud technologies to enhance data processing, analytics, and integration capabilities. In this role you will work closely with government stakeholders, software developers, mission operators, and commercial vendors to ensure commercial capabilities are integrated, tested, and transitioned effectively into the Joint Commercial Operations (JCO) cloud environment.
This position is eligible for remote work, though the ideal candidate should be located in Colorado Springs, CO.
Required Skills:
As a Systems Operations Engineer at Parsons, required skills and responsibilities include:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline with 2+ years of relevant systems operations, infrastructure support, or IT engineering experience; or an associate degree/HS diploma with 5+ years of experience.
Strong technical expertise with core cloud infrastructure services (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, security groups).
Evaluate and select appropriate cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, GovCloud, etc.) based on workload needs, compliance requirements, and cost considerations.
Monitor cloud infrastructure telemetry, manage system logs, rapidly troubleshoot operational disruptions, and perform root-cause remediation.
Demonstrated experience managing system updates, software lifecycles, and automated patch management across cloud environments using development pipelines.
Lead software lifecycle and patch management efforts, ensuring operating systems, container base images, AMI templates, and software dependencies are consistently kept current and supported.
Perform routine Linux and cloud administration, including automated system deployments, health monitoring, user access management, and resource optimization across AWS environments.
Administer, configure, and upgrade core operational tools, applying…