Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Government Systems

📋 Description

• Lead the design and advancement of RKE2 Kubernetes clusters across development, acceptance, and production environments — steering upgrades, capacity planning, networking strategies, and operational resilience.

• Architect and sustain infrastructure as code (Terraform) to provision and manage AWS-based environments, creating patterns and modules that the team can confidently scale.

• Take ownership of the CI/CD platform (GitHub Actions) from end-to-end — crafting pipeline architecture, enhancing build performance, and ensuring reliable release flows through staged environments.

• Propel a GitOps-based delivery strategy utilizing Flux CD, establishing standards for Helm charts and Kustomize overlays while ensuring consistent reconciliation across clusters.

• Define policies for the container image lifecycle — including building, signing, storing, and distributing images across OCI registries for various deployment targets.

• Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation, enhancing environment provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes at a systemic level.

• Establish and uphold monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices — managing dashboards, runbooks, and post-incident reviews that enhance platform reliability over time.

• Act as a technical liaison for product service teams integrating into the deployment pipeline — unblocking teams, troubleshooting intricate environment issues, and promoting infrastructure best practices.

• Manage the security posture of the deployment platform — overseeing secrets, certificates, RBAC policies, and security configurations to fulfill compliance and operational security requirements.

• Mentor and elevate other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in operating Kubernetes in production at scale — including cluster lifecycle management, Helm, networking, persistent storage, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex workloads.

• Expert-level skills in Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure across multiple environments, with a focus on module design and state management strategies.

• Strong Linux systems administration expertise (RHEL or similar — encompassing networking, storage, systemd, performance analysis, and shell scripting).

• Significant experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar), prioritizing reliability, speed, and developer experience.

• Profound familiarity with AWS services commonly utilized in infrastructure (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, EBS, Lambda, and associated networking and security services).

• A robust operational mindset — taking ownership of reliability, proactively considering failure modes, and developing automation to prevent recurring issues before they affect customers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Offers Equity

• Offers Bonus