Senior Platform Engineer - Remote Kubernetes & Cloud

BlackSky; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employee-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums

15 days of PTO and 11 Company holidays

401(k) with employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

BlackSky seeks a motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate AWS infrastructure, manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, and implement GitOps workflows. This hands-on role is essential to the deployment of effective solutions for our clients.

The ideal candidate should have strong AWS and Kubernetes experience, preferably with a bachelor's degree in a related field. Join BlackSky to be part of a team that values innovation and impacting the world through technology.

Qualifications

• At least five years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across networking, compute, storage, and IAM.
• Production experience operating Kubernetes in one or more enterprise distributions.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure for customer workloads.
• Stand up and run production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD.

Skills

Kubernetes operational experience

Hands-on AWS experience

Infrastructure-as-code skills

Production monitoring and observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Terraform

GitOps workflows

Helm

Job description

BlackSky seeks a motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate AWS infrastructure, manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters, and implement GitOps workflows. This hands-on role is essential to the deployment of effective solutions for our clients.

The ideal candidate should have strong AWS and Kubernetes experience, preferably with a bachelor's degree in a related field. Join BlackSky to be part of a team that values innovation and impacting the world through technology.