Mission Control DevOps Engineer
The Exploration Company · Munich, Bavaria, DE
Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuell...
Job description
Here at The Exploration Company, we are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refuelled in orbit and that can carry cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run. As a Mission Control DevOps Engineer, you will own the cloud infrastructure that powers the Nyx ground segment — the backbone of our mission operations. You will design, deploy, and maintain the systems that our flight controllers and ground software teams depend on around the clock. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role at the intersection of aerospace and modern cloud engineering. Key Responsibilities: Design and operate the AWS cloud infrastructure underpinning Nyx ground segment software, including compute (EC2), container orchestration (EKS), relational databases (RDS), block and file storage (EBS, EFS), and object storage (S3). Build and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure to ensure mission-critical uptime during launch, flight, and re-entry operations. Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) — including node group scaling, cluster upgrades, networking (CNI, ingress), RBAC, and workload scheduling for ground segm...