Senior Kubernetes SRE for Space Systems | Remote

Quantum Sky; Colorado Springs, El Segundo (CO, CA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Paid Time Off

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Quantum Sky is seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to support Space Systems Command, delivering software for space defense and data services. You will deploy, secure, and maintain containerized apps across IL4/IL6 environments, participate in Agile ceremonies, and drive reliability with SRE practices.

You will lead lifecycle management of Kubernetes services, implement observability, and collaborate with 14 product teams and thousands of users, ensuring scalable, secure operations in a remote-friendly

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional Kubernetes Engineer experience designing and building distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT from an accredited institution.
• CKA/CKAD/KCNA or equivalent certification.
• Experience delivering container orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
• Infrastructure as Code for deployment, config, and automation.
• Observability groundwork: metrics, monitoring, and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Leverage Kubernetes to deploy, upgrade, patch, and maintain tools and services for production use.
• Work in an Agile framework with daily standups, sprints, and backlogs.
• Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes.
• Tune performance and establish monitoring dashboards and alerts.
• Lead lifecycle management of containerized services for Kobayashi Maru software.
• Troubleshoot containers and publish RCAs and postmortems.
• Establish SLOs and SRE metrics; manage north-south and east-west traffic.
• Ensure Kubernetes runs with proper patching, resources, and scalability.
• Design, secure, deploy, and manage Kubernetes environments across multiple product teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

SRE

Automation

IaC

Monitoring

Observability

Argo CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Kustomize

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Helm

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT

Tools

Argo CD

cert-manager

Ingress

Keycloak

MinIO

MongoDB

Prometheus

Grafana

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Sealed Secrets

Tanzu Postgres and Operator

Velero/Restic

Harbor

Kustomize

Jira

Confluence

GitLab

Helm

Job description

Quantum Sky is seeking a Kubernetes Engineer to support Space Systems Command, delivering software for space defense and data services. You will deploy, secure, and maintain containerized apps across IL4/IL6 environments, participate in Agile ceremonies, and drive reliability with SRE practices.

You will lead lifecycle management of Kubernetes services, implement observability, and collaborate with 14 product teams and thousands of users, ensuring scalable, secure operations in a remote-friendly