Kubernetes Engineer

Quantum Sky; Colorado Springs, El Segundo (CO, CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Paid Time Off

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Quantum Sky is seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to support Space Systems Command, delivering software for space defense and data services. You will deploy, secure, and maintain containerized apps across IL4/IL6 environments, participate in Agile ceremonies, and drive reliability with SRE practices.

You will lead lifecycle management of Kubernetes services, implement observability, and collaborate with 14 product teams and thousands of users, ensuring scalable, secure operations in a remote-friendly

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional Kubernetes Engineer experience designing and building distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT from an accredited institution.
• CKA/CKAD/KCNA or equivalent certification.
• Experience delivering container orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code for deployment, config, and automation.
• Observability groundwork: metrics, monitoring, and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Leverage Kubernetes to deploy, upgrade, patch, and maintain tools and services for production use.
• Work in an Agile framework with daily standups, sprints, and backlogs.
• Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes.
• Tune performance and establish monitoring dashboards and alerts.
• Lead lifecycle management of containerized services for Kobayashi Maru software.
• Troubleshoot containers and publish RCAs and postmortems.
• Establish SLOs and SRE metrics; manage north-south and east-west traffic.
• Ensure Kubernetes runs with proper patching, resources, and scalability.
• Design, secure, deploy, and manage Kubernetes environments across multiple product teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE

Automation

IaC

Monitoring

Observability

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Kustomize

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Helm

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT

Tools

Argo CD

cert-manager

Ingress

Keycloak

MinIO

MongoDB

Prometheus

Grafana

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Sealed Secrets

Tanzu Postgres and Operator

Velero/Restic

Harbor

Kustomize

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Helm

Job description

Description

Quantum Sky is searching for a Kubernetes Engineer to support the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. Kobayashi Maru is responsible for continuously delivering impactful software for space operations. The program office’s mission includes the development and deployment of software for space defense, space domain awareness, and enabling data services.

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging Kubernetes technology to deliver, install, upgrade, patch and maintain highly reliable and resilient solutions for deploying and hosting current and future tools and services needed to develop, test, secure, and ship software applications to production.
• Perform within an Agile framework including conducting daily stand up, welcome feedback often, sprint/iteration planning, duration planning, retrospectives, executing from the product backlog and roadmap, meeting performance metrics, and reporting on progress and blockers.
• Securing and configuring containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes, and its underlying environment.
• Tuning Kubernetes performance and identifying problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards.
• Lead for the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software.
• Troubleshooting containerized-services and publishing root cause analysis (RCAs) and postmortems with the larger portfolio.
• Establish Service Level Objectives and other Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) related metrics.
• Manage the north-south and east-west network traffic to ensure all container-based critical services are maintained.
• Ensure the Kubernetes environment is running as it should, properly patched and configured, has sufficient resources to run the required applications, and can scale as needed without being overprovisioned.
• With automation and an ‘everything as code’ mentality, you will design, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment required to support 14 software product teams and thousands of users across the test, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher classification level stagging/production environments

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum 6 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, successfully designing and building distributed systems for mid to large enterprises, including two years of SRE experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT from an accredited institution
• Possession of a current Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification, or equivalent
• Your resume must demonstrate experience:
• Delivering container orchestration solutions to leverage the full value of container technology
• Designing, building, and implementing could-native architectures with Kubernetes
• Maintaining, configuring, and monitoring containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in the development, test, and production environment
• Designing containerized solutions for relational/non-relational databases, data auditing, caching, and performance
• Implementing observability solutions, key metrics to monitor, and establishing monitoring foundation
• Troubleshooting and conducting root cause analysis to address routine to moderately complex issues with accuracy and performance
• Deploying and managing micro-services using container orchestration platforms
• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language, with configuration management tools, service registry and discovery tools, infrastructure orchestration tools, and automated imaging tools
• Using and optimizing monitoring and trending systems, log aggregation systems, and their agents
• Proficiently using one or more of the following tools: Argo CD, cert-manager, Ingress, Keycloak, MinIO, MongoDB, Pinniped, Prometheus, Grafana, VMWare Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Sealed Secrets, Tanzu Postgres and Operator, Vault, Velero/Restic, Harbor, Kustomize, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab and Helm

Clearance:

• Active Secret clearance

Certifications:

• Security + if privileged access is required for the role

Location:

• This is a remote position with a preference of the candidate residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado OR El Segundo, CA

About Quantum Sky

Compensation:

• Compensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically between $145,000-$157,000. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.

Benefits:

• Highlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and parental leave.

The world the mission operates in is going post-quantum, contested, and machine-speed. Quantum Sky engineers the advantage across cyber, networks, software, and quantum because the mission demands dominance, not parity. We don't follow the map. We draw it.

At Quantum Sky, we believe that success starts with our people. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and mission-driven environment where every team member plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology. Are you ready to join #TeamQuantumSky?

Quantum Sky Engineering LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, [sexual orientation, gender identity,] national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any characteristic protected by applicable law.