2 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$135k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and operate AWS infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, IAM, EKS, and hybrid connectivity to on-premises and private or air-gapped networks.
- Run production Kubernetes clusters on EKS, Rancher/RKE2, and/or Red Hat OpenShift 4, including upgrades, capacity planning, networking, storage, and day-two operations.
- Implement and own Argo CD GitOps workflows, including declarative state, app-of-apps patterns, synchronization policies, drift detection, and progressive rollouts.
- Author and maintain Helm charts, values, dependencies, and templating standards across environments.
- Package and deliver application images, charts, and manifests into disconnected environments using Zarf and equivalent tooling.
- Manage infrastructure and platform configuration as code with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize.
- Build and harden CI/CD pipelines for delivery from development through restricted production and business continuity environments.
- Integrate certificate management, secrets management, container registries, storage, monitoring, logging, and observability services.
- Establish operational standards covering monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, incident response, capacity, and cost management.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering, including at least three years running Kubernetes in production.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across networking, compute, storage, IAM, and hybrid or on-premises connectivity.
- Production experience with Amazon EKS, Rancher/RKE2, or OpenShift 4.
- Demonstrated GitOps experience using Argo CD or Flux as the primary deployment mechanism.
- Proficiency authoring and maintaining Helm charts and understanding Kubernetes workloads, networking, RBAC, storage, CRDs, and operators.
- Experience deploying and managing workloads through the Kubernetes Operator model, OLM, or OperatorHub.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, preferably with Terraform.
- Linux systems administration and scripting experience with Bash, Python, or Go.
- Experience with hardened non-CVE or zero-known-vulnerability base images and supply-chain security practices.
- Production monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Preferred qualifications include experience across EKS, Rancher/RKE2, and OpenShift; edge or resource-constrained Kubernetes; air-gapped deployments; image scanning with Trivy, Grype, or Clair; Vault or External Secrets Operator; PKI; Ceph or EBS/EFS storage; OpenTelemetry; Elasticsearch or OpenSearch logging; regulated programs; Istio; and relevant Kubernetes, AWS, Red Hat, or Rancher certifications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work independently across the full lifecycle of a platform component.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life, AD&D, voluntary life, and voluntary AD&D insurance.
- BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only medical, dental, and vision premiums and contributes $100 per month toward out-of-pocket expenses.
- 15 days of PTO, 11 company holidays, four floating holidays, paid volunteerism leave, parental leave, and additional leave benefits.
- 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options with employer matching.
- Flexible Spending Accounts, an Employee Stock Purchase Program, Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs, and employer matching donations.
- Professional development, choice of Mac or PC, and company swag.
- Offices are located in Herndon, Virginia and Seattle, Washington, with remote work available for candidates in certain states.
- The role is full-time and benefits eligible; the stated Seattle salary range is $135,000-$150,000 per year.
Tech Stack
Argo CDAWSBashElasticsearchGoGrafanaHelmIstioKubernetesLogstashOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRancherTerraformVault
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About BlackSky
BlackSky builds and operates a constellation of small Earth‑observation satellites and a real‑time geospatial intelligence platform that delivers imagery and automated analytics to government and commercial customers. It sells subscriptions and tasking services for near real‑time monitoring of strategic sites and events. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, BlackSky is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: BKSY).