Senior Cloud Infra Engineer – Kubernetes Platform

Aalyria; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Innovative Environment

Impactful Work

Growth Opportunities

Inclusive Culture

Flexibility

Compensation and Equity

Job summary

Aalyria is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Spacetime engineering team, focused on multicloud, Kubernetes-based systems. You will design, develop, test, and maintain core software while owning critical infrastructure and delivery paths across environments.

The role emphasizes automation, security, and observability, with opportunities to lead deployments, champion best practices, and collaborate with top-tier engineers in a hybrid work setting that supports flexible

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience with production infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals. You automate infrastructure in code instead of hand‑operating it.
• Experience with AWS or GCP, infrastructure-as-code, cloud networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Experience packaging and delivering software onto Kubernetes, with a good understanding of templating, rendering, and controller-based approaches.

Responsibilities

• Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle end to end – provisioning, upgrades, addons, and the networking layer on top of it.
• Define how Spacetime is packaged and configured for Kubernetes, and decide where Helm, rendering, or custom controllers belong.
• Build the delivery path: GitOps reconciliation with Argo CD, IaC run orchestration, drift detection, OPA policy gates, and promotion between environments.
• Own fleet-scale change mechanics – module and chart versioning, staged rollouts, migration paths, deprecation.
• Operate availability, upgrades, capacity, observability, backup/recovery, security maintenance, and incident response.

Job description

Aalyria is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Spacetime engineering team, focused on multicloud, Kubernetes-based systems. You will design, develop, test, and maintain core software while owning critical infrastructure and delivery paths across environments.

The role emphasizes automation, security, and observability, with opportunities to lead deployments, champion best practices, and collaborate with top-tier engineers in a hybrid work setting that supports flexible