Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Kubernetes & GitOps

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401(k)

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar

Parental leave

Lifestyle spending account

FSA/HSA

Life insurance

Mental health resources

Job summary

Firestorm is seeking a Senior or Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in San Diego to expand the infrastructure team behind Crucible. You will collaborate with software engineers to design, build, secure, and operate the cloud platform as Crucible grows.

You will shape cloud architecture, implement Kubernetes and cloud services, and drive secure, scalable infrastructure across multiple environments, including sensitive or air-gapped setups.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience with production systems.
• U.S. person required due to ITAR regulations.
• Deep experience with cloud architecture and operating production cloud environments.
• Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production.
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code fundamentals.
• Strong cloud networking, Linux, identity, and security fundamentals.
• Experience building CI/CD, deployment, and GitOps systems.
• Experience with production observability and debugging distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering or scripting skills across application and infrastructure code.
• Demonstrated ability to design cloud solutions from ambiguous product and engineering requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design Crucible's cloud platform and define infrastructure, services, networking, and deployment patterns behind Crucible capabilities.
• Build and operate Kubernetes, cloud services, networking, and infrastructure across development and production environments.
• Own infrastructure as code with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
• Build secure cloud solutions including identity, access, network boundaries, secrets, and cloud controls.
• Improve developer velocity by enhancing deployment, environments, tooling, and workflows.
• Make production reliable with observability, recovery, deployment safety, and tooling.
• Support complex deployments across commercial cloud, GovCloud, and on-premise or air-gapped environments.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

Networking

Linux

Security fundamentals

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Scripting

Cloud design

ITAR compliance

AWS

Argo CD

Istio

IAM/OIDC

Secrets management

Air-gapped deployments

Scalability of infra

Job description

Firestorm is seeking a Senior or Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in San Diego to expand the infrastructure team behind Crucible. You will collaborate with software engineers to design, build, secure, and operate the cloud platform as Crucible grows.

You will shape cloud architecture, implement Kubernetes and cloud services, and drive secure, scalable infrastructure across multiple environments, including sensitive or air-gapped setups.