2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Build cloud accounts, projects, networking, DNS and IPAM, identity and RBAC, quotas, and policy foundations.
- Own Kubernetes cluster provisioning, upgrades, addons, and networking layers including Gateway API, service mesh, and zero-trust connectivity.
- Design disconnected deployment capabilities including registry and artifact mirroring, hermetic builds, no-egress artifact sourcing, bootstrapping without upstream access, and out-of-band promotion.
- Define Kubernetes packaging and configuration approaches using Helm, rendering, or custom controllers where appropriate.
- Build GitOps reconciliation, infrastructure-as-code orchestration, drift detection, OPA policy gates, and multi-environment promotion workflows.
- Own fleet-scale change management including module and chart versioning, staged rollouts, migrations, and deprecations.
- Operate production infrastructure through availability management, upgrades, capacity planning, observability, backup and recovery, security maintenance, and incident response.
- Partner with product and domain engineering teams to turn requirements into reusable self-service infrastructure primitives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience with production infrastructure or distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to automate infrastructure in code.
- Experience with AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Experience packaging and delivering software onto Kubernetes, including understanding tradeoffs among templating, rendering, and controller-based approaches.
- Preferred experience supporting classified, air-gapped, regulated, or otherwise constrained environments.
- Preferred experience with cloud landing zones, account and project vending, network architecture, DNS/IPAM, IAM foundations, workload identity, organizational policy, or quota management.
- Preferred experience with GitOps delivery and continuous reconciliation at scale, including drift management, promotion, and multi-environment rollouts.
- Preferred experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, reusable modules, self-service provisioning, and infrastructure platforms used by multiple internal engineering teams.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid remote/in-office schedules.
- Comprehensive benefits including 401(k), dental, vision, and health and life insurance.
- Paid time off, equity options, professional development, and advancement opportunities.
- Opportunity to contribute to aerospace communications and national security programs.
- The position involves export-controlled information and requires meeting applicable U.S. export-control eligibility or authorization requirements; the company may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
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About Aalyria
Aalyria builds networking technologies for operating high-throughput, moving networks across land, sea, air, and space. Its products include Tightbeam, an ultra-high-speed free-space optical communications system, and Spacetime, a platform-as-a-service for modeling, planning, and orchestrating dynamic networks for commercial and government operators. Privately held and headquartered in Livermore, California, Aalyria originated from technologies developed at Alphabet and serves aerospace, telecommunications, and national security markets.