Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Remote Infra

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform team. You will manage Kubernetes in GKE, implement Terraform-based automation, and champion GitOps practices to empower internal development teams.

You will work across multi-cloud priorities, drive security and compliance, and mentor engineers while building scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure for AI-focused research and applications.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering and optimising large-scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes tooling: Helm and kustomize.
• Strong experience with GitOps tooling and ArgoCD.
• Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture.
• Strong knowledge in GKE and production cluster maintenance.
• Strong experience with Terraform for provisioning and automation.
• Solid programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript.
• Experience creating developer-focused self-service docs and solutions.
• Strong customer empathy, supporting internal teams (our Prolificos).

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 Prolificos.
• Be a part of our rolling on-call rota.

Skills

Kubernetes clusters administration

Kubernetes tooling (Helm, kustomize)

GitOps (ArgoCD)

GCP services & architecture

GKE production clusters maintenance

Terraform for provisioning

Python

TypeScript

Developer self-service docs

Customer empathy for internal teams

Tools

Terraform

Helm

kustomize

ArgoCD

Datadog

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform team. You will manage Kubernetes in GKE, implement Terraform-based automation, and champion GitOps practices to empower internal development teams.

You will work across multi-cloud priorities, drive security and compliance, and mentor engineers while building scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure for AI-focused research and applications.