Kubernetes Engineer: On‑Prem & AWS Infra for Space

The Aerospace Corporation; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Paid holidays

Telework options

401(k) matching

Flexible spending accounts

Relocation assistance

Professional growth

Education assistance

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a skilled Kubernetes Engineer (Technical and Cloud Computing Engineer Staff IV/V) with expertise in Kubernetes, Linux, programming, and automation. You will manage Kubernetes clusters on‑prem and in the cloud, supporting engineering teams across space programs.

You’ll work with rocket scientists and engineers to deliver innovative solutions for space telemetry analysis and mission critical workloads, on‑site in Chantilly, VA or El Segundo, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM, or IT or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of increasingly responsible and relevant professional experience supporting a high availability enterprise environment.
• 2+ years hands‑on experience managing existing Kubernetes environments, with responsibilities of deployment, upgrade, patching, and backups.
• Full ownership and engineering responsibility of production AWS and Kubernetes services.
• Experience in Linux systems administration, including configuration, for an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience automating repetitive tasks with scripting or DevOps tools.
• This position requires the ability to maintain a Secret security clearance and the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance
• 7+ years of experience in AWS, Linux, and IaC; architecting and deploying secure environments; performance tuning and capacity planning.

Responsibilities

• Manage Kubernetes for on‑prem and in AWS production environments with end‑to‑end responsibilities of deployment, upgrade, patching, performance tuning, capacity planning & backups/DR.
• Frequent full security patching of all layers of Kubernetes infrastructure while maintaining very high uptime
• Ownership and engineering responsibility of production AWS and Kubernetes services
• Identify and resolve full Kubernetes stack engineering problems independently
• Ensure successful real‑time analysis of telemetry data from space launch partners, such as SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), and Blue Origin
• Provide after‑hours support for Kubernetes infrastructure troubleshooting during launch events
• Support scientists and engineers running workloads and apps in Kubernetes
• Provide Linux expertise and troubleshooting
• Evaluate and test new products and technologies
• Use code to enhance and automate operations

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Automation

Scripting

AWS

DevOps

Networking fundamentals

Security clearance

Python

CI/CD

Education

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

Tools

Rancher

Portworx

VMware

Hyper-V

Harvester

ArgoCD

Ansible

Terraform

Packer

Golang

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation is seeking a skilled Kubernetes Engineer (Technical and Cloud Computing Engineer Staff IV/V) with expertise in Kubernetes, Linux, programming, and automation. You will manage Kubernetes clusters on‑prem and in the cloud, supporting engineering teams across space programs.

You’ll work with rocket scientists and engineers to deliver innovative solutions for space telemetry analysis and mission critical workloads, on‑site in Chantilly, VA or El Segundo, CA.