Cloud Infra Architect - Kubernetes & Observability Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Burlingame, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Xona is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE engineer to own cloud operations and observability across AWS and on-prem environments as we scale the Pulsar constellation. You will partner with software teams to build reliable infrastructure, enforce security and efficiency, and champion GitOps practices.

The role demands hands-on Kubernetes expertise, strong automation skills, and a bias toward testable, resilient systems; you will mentor engineers and help shape future-proof platform patterns.

Qualifications

• Strong infrastructure or SRE engineer who gets excited about running systems at scale and making them better every day
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including production operations, deployment tooling, networking, IAM, and GitOps patterns on hyperscale vendors; on-premises experience (OpenShift/etc) is also a plus.
• Thoughtful about how testing/release workflow design affect system reliability in a microservices architecture
• Experienced with container orchestration (Kubernetes/etc), infrastructure-as-code (OpenTofu/Terraform/etc), and cloud networking
• You have great instincts for observability, and your alerts or dashboards caught real problems (OpenTelemetry experience is a plus). You understand what makes for effective tooling for a rapidly scaling software team.
• You're opinionated about how to automate processes, maintain complex systems, and safely ship
• You believe in empowering SWE to understand and manage their deployments and infra autonomously
• You rise to the challenge of working in a small team with outsize impact and visibility.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud operations: You'll run our environments, from alpha to production, on AWS and Kubernetes. Your team helps software engineers scale their services, plan capacity needs, release often, and optimize costs.
• Develop best-in-class observability: You'll be on the team that owns our monitoring setup end to end. You implement observability infrastructure to stay ahead of SLOs with dashboards and timely alerts.
• Automate everything: continuous delivery, high availability, hermetic builds, infrastructure-as-code, zero-downtime deployments. You’re comfortable writing quality software in at least one general purpose language.
• Design for the future: as Xona's Pulsar constellation goes to 100x, new product directions are a given. You're always thinking about flexibility in our infrastructure and testing/release flows so the foundation lasts.
• Be a Kubernetes technical leader: Help establish paved-road patterns for Kubernetes deployment and operations, and become a trusted source of mentorship for teams orchestrating containers across Xona.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Networking

GitOps

OpenShift

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

OpenTofu

Argo

Kustomize/Helm

Job description

Xona is seeking a seasoned Platform/SRE engineer to own cloud operations and observability across AWS and on-prem environments as we scale the Pulsar constellation. You will partner with software teams to build reliable infrastructure, enforce security and efficiency, and champion GitOps practices.

The role demands hands-on Kubernetes expertise, strong automation skills, and a bias toward testable, resilient systems; you will mentor engineers and help shape future-proof platform patterns.