Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, GCP, GitOps

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and optimize our scalable cloud platform. You’ll manage Kubernetes in production, drive Terraform automation, and champion GitOps with ArgoCD on GCP (GKE).

You’ll collaborate with developers to build self-serve infrastructure, implement security best practices, and uphold SOC2/ISO-27001 controls. Remote-friendly role with a focus on reliability and observability using Datadog.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling, such as Helm and kustomize.
• Strong experience with GitOps tooling and methodologies, such as ArgoCD.
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture.
• Strong knowledge in GKE and Kubernetes, including maintenance and optimisation of production clusters.
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience creating developer-focused documentation and self-service solutions that enable teams to easily self-serve.
• Strong customer empathy, with a focus on supporting internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise our Kubernetes clusters in GKE through Terraform.
• Support our compliance with SOC2, ISO-27001, and Cyber Essentials standards in our cloud environments.
• Design and implement golden paths and automation strategies that empower developers to self-serve while reducing operational complexity.
• Create and maintain infrastructure solutions that allow development teams to build and deploy safely, easily, and efficiently.
• Serve as the technical point-of-contact for GCP and Kubernetes-related queries, providing expertise to other engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

GCP

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Documentation

On-call

Security

Datadog

CDK

AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GKE

Terraform

Python

TypeScript

Datadog

CDK

AWS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to own and optimize our scalable cloud platform. You’ll manage Kubernetes in production, drive Terraform automation, and champion GitOps with ArgoCD on GCP (GKE).

You’ll collaborate with developers to build self-serve infrastructure, implement security best practices, and uphold SOC2/ISO-27001 controls. Remote-friendly role with a focus on reliability and observability using Datadog.