Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Kubernetes & GitOps Leader

EVONA; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Lunar Outpost Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to join our mission-driven team in Golden, CO.

You will own Stargate production releases, design scalable Kubernetes infrastructure, and implement GitOps-driven deployments in a high-availability environment. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Kubernetes and Helm chart skills, and hands-on experience with progressive delivery and OpenTelemetry for observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production DevOps/SRE experience.
• Kubernetes admin with production access.
• Strong Helm chart development for multi-component apps.
• Experience with canary and blue-green deployments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes volumes, DNS, load balancers, secrets.
• GitOps workflows experience with Flux CD.
• Proven 99.99%+ uptime in production environments.
• Familiarity with declarative canary orchestration (Aetherflux).

Responsibilities

• Own and manage Stargate production releases and deployment pipelines using GitOps practices.
• Drive metrics collection, log aggregation, uptime monitoring, KPI tracking, and SIM integration.
• Maintain 99.99% to 99.999% uptime SLAs.
• Design, develop, and maintain Helm charts for Stargate and related infrastructure components.
• Implement progressive deployment strategies including canary deployments and blue-green deployments.
• Oversee critical Kubernetes infrastructure including volume management, DNS configuration, load balancer provisioning, and secret monitoring/management.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments and related AWS services.
• Implement and maintain observability stack using OpenTelemetry for monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and enforce operational best practices and reliability standards.

Skills

DevOps/SRE

Kubernetes admin

Helm charts

GitOps

Canary deployments

Blue-green deployments

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Flux CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Lunar Outpost Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to join our mission-driven team in Golden, CO.

You will own Stargate production releases, design scalable Kubernetes infrastructure, and implement GitOps-driven deployments in a high-availability environment. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE, strong Kubernetes and Helm chart skills, and hands-on experience with progressive delivery and OpenTelemetry for observability.