Ground Systems SRE – Kubernetes, Security & Uptime

Speedrun Talent Network; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

PTO 15–20 days

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Daily catered lunch

Job summary

Apex Technology, Inc. seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure across commercial and secured environments.

As a hands-on architect, you will scale Kubernetes clusters, own the security posture, drive uptime, and define standards that raise the bar for ground infrastructure across programs in aerospace and defense.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience architecting and operating ground network infrastructure.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise and building high-availability clusters.
• Strong networking knowledge for secure design and segmentation.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability tooling.
• Security and compliance for regulated environments with defensible posture.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build ground and site network infrastructure spanning commercial and secured or classified environments through the platform layer.
• Design, deploy, and scale highly available Kubernetes clusters that support workloads across multiple security and classification levels.
• Own the security posture of ground infrastructure, defining and enforcing controls, hardening, and compliance for sensitive government and commercial programs.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and similar tooling so that environments are repeatable, reviewable, and fast to stand up.
• Establish observability across the ground network, including monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerting, so issues are caught before they reach a mission.
• Design and run CI/CD pipelines and automation that streamline deployments and reduce manual, error-prone work.
• Act as a primary site reliability engineer for ground systems, driving uptime, incident response, and reliability standards on programs where downtime is not an option.
• Partner with security, mission operations, and program teams to translate requirements into infrastructure that is both compliant and operable.
• Set architectural standards and mentor other engineers, raising the bar for how ground infrastructure is built at Apex.

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Prometheus

Grafana

ArgoCD

Mimir

Job description

Apex Technology, Inc. seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Ground Software team. You will design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure across commercial and secured environments.

As a hands-on architect, you will scale Kubernetes clusters, own the security posture, drive uptime, and define standards that raise the bar for ground infrastructure across programs in aerospace and defense.