26 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design on-premises Kubernetes platforms and their supporting compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.
- Lead cluster lifecycle operations, including upgrades, capacity planning, failure domains, and safe changes.
- Build automation for provisioning, configuring, and operating the platform.
- Define standards for deploying, hardening, and operating security services on Kubernetes.
- Harden clusters and workloads through RBAC, policy, secrets management, and secure configuration.
- Respond to complex production incidents and drive durable fixes.
- Define operational signals, alerts, and practices for platform supportability.
- Identify systemic security and IT gaps and deliver platform and deployment changes that reduce risk.
- Document and maintain the platform and advise partner teams.
- Coordinate with information security, IT, software, and other teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or another STEM discipline, or at least two years of professional production infrastructure experience plus a high school diploma or equivalency certificate.
- At least five years of experience operating on-premises Kubernetes in production.
- At least five years of Linux system administration experience and experience with Python, Go, or another language used for infrastructure automation.
- Experience with production Kubernetes at scale, including control plane, networking, storage, RBAC, and upgrades.
- Experience designing on-premises compute, storage, and network architectures for container platforms.
- Knowledge of cluster and node hardening, admission control, secure workload configuration, infrastructure as code, and configuration management.
- Experience with observability, alerting, operational readiness, CI/CD or GitOps-style delivery, capacity planning, recovery, TCP/IP, and root-cause debugging.
- Willingness to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
- Must satisfy applicable ITAR eligibility or authorization requirements.
Benefits
- The role requires onsite work; hybrid or remote work is not available.
- Extended hours and/or weekend work may be required.
- The position is subject to ITAR requirements limiting eligibility to specified U.S. persons or applicants eligible to obtain required authorizations.
About SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches orbital rockets and spacecraft, and operates Starlink, a global satellite internet network for consumers, businesses, and governments. Its revenue comes from commercial and government launch services (Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy, Dragon cargo and crew to the ISS) and subscription broadband with Starlink hardware and service. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Hawthorne, California, the privately held company serves NASA and commercial satellite operators, building most systems in-house.