Delivery Engineer - Cloud & Automation
Bluestaq US External4 months ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$95k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy and maintain UDL platform infrastructure on AWS EKS using Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Manage application rollouts through Argo CD and troubleshoot failed deployments, upgrades, and synchronization issues.
- Monitor production health with Grafana, logs, and distributed traces and drive incidents to root cause.
- Perform live Kubernetes remediation including pod restarts, rolling updates, scaling, node draining, and stuck-workload debugging.
- Improve observability coverage, alert quality, runbooks, and operational automation based on incidents.
- Automate repetitive operational work using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to ship changes safely into regulated environments.
- Mentor junior engineers and participate in production on-call rotation.
- Use modern AI tools judiciously while protecting proprietary and sensitive data.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes, preferably EKS, including deployments, services, ingress, and failed-pod or rollout troubleshooting.
- Hands-on Terraform experience provisioning AWS infrastructure; Terragrunt experience is a plus.
- Strong AWS fundamentals including IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, and CloudWatch.
- Experience working in Linux environments and writing automation in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry or equivalent platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preferred experience with Argo CD or other GitOps tooling at scale, Helm, Kustomize, Kafka, Amazon MSK, Istio, Linkerd, incident response leadership, postmortems, AWS certifications, and regulated or security-conscious environments.
- U.S. citizenship is required; the position is clearance-eligible and may require TS/SCI eligibility.
Benefits
- On-site presence in Colorado Springs is required.
- Relocation assistance may be available and is evaluated case by case.
- Bluestaq will sponsor eligible candidates through the TS/SCI clearance process based on program needs.
- Applications are accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.
About Bluestaq US External
Bluestaq builds data integration and management platforms that break down silos and deliver time-critical information across defense, government, and commercial environments. Its software and secure infrastructure support space domain awareness and satellite command-and-control workflows, including work with U.S. Space Force programs. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, it operates globally with teams in London, Brisbane, and Canberra, and is privately held.