Senior Infrastructure Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Design and manage AWS infrastructure (VPC, subnets, NLB/ALB, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, Route 53) along with hybrid connectivity that links cloud environments to on-premises and private/air-gapped networks.

• Establish and maintain production-ready Kubernetes clusters on EKS, Rancher (RKE2), and/or Red Hat OpenShift 4, including tasks related to upgrades, capacity planning, networking, storage, and ongoing operations.

• Implement and take ownership of GitOps workflows using Argo CD — focusing on declarative cluster and application states, app-of-apps patterns, synchronization policies, drift detection, and progressive rollout techniques.

• Create, version, and maintain Helm charts for both internal and third-party workloads, ensuring effective values management, chart dependencies, and templating standards across various environments.

• Develop repeatable delivery processes for disconnected environments using Zarf (or similar packaging/mirroring tools) — packaging images, charts, and manifests for air-gapped installations and reproducible deployments.

• Codify infrastructure and platform configurations as code (using Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) with a well-defined build-once / promote-per-environment strategy.

• Construct and strengthen CI/CD pipelines that facilitate the secure transition of artifacts from development to restricted production and BCP targets.

• Integrate platform services — including certificate management (cert-manager), secrets management, container registries, storage, and observability — as shared, reusable components.

• Establish operational standards encompassing monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, incident response, and capacity/cost management.

• Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of five years of experience in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering, with at least three years of experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience (four years).

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, particularly in networking, compute, storage, and IAM, including hybrid/on-prem connectivity patterns.

• Proven experience operating Kubernetes in one or more enterprise distributions — including Amazon EKS, Rancher/RKE2, or OpenShift 4.

• Demonstrated proficiency in GitOps practices using Argo CD (or Flux) as the primary deployment tool.

• Strong skills in authoring and maintaining Helm charts, along with a solid understanding of Kubernetes primitives (workloads, networking, RBAC, storage, CRDs/operators).

• Experience with the Kubernetes Operator deployment model — deploying and managing workloads through operators and CRDs (OLM/OperatorHub).

• Robust infrastructure-as-code capabilities, preferably using Terraform.

• Proficient in Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, as well as Python or Go).

• Familiarity with building on hardened, non-CVE / zero-known-vulnerability base images (e.g., Chainguard, Iron Bank, or distroless/minimal baselines) and implementing supply-chain security practices.

• Experience with production monitoring and observability using Prometheus and Grafana (exporters, PromQL, alerting, dashboards).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to work independently throughout the entire lifecycle of a platform component.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance.

• BlackSky covers 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental, and vision, and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!

• 15 days of PTO, 11 company holidays, four floating holidays, one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave, and more.

• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer matching.

• Flexible Spending Accounts.

• Employee Stock Purchase Program.

• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs.

• Employer matching donations.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Choice between Mac or PC!

• Awesome swag.