Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Space Ground Infrastructure

Apex Technology, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

PTO

401(k)

Parental leave

Lunch & snacks

Office in Playa Vista

Impactful work

Job summary

Apex Technology, Inc. is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure connecting Apex facilities and mission operations.

This hands-on role involves architecting a highly available Kubernetes platform and defining the security posture that keeps it compliant. You will own observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, partnering with security, mission operations, and program teams to deliver compliant and operable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability, infrastructure, or network engineering, with aerospace/defense or mission-critical domain experience.
• Hands-on experience architecting and operating ground network or large-scale production network infrastructure.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and containers, incl. HA clusters in production.
• Strong networking fundamentals across routing, switching, segmentation, and secure design.
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, and observability tools.
• Security/compliance knowledge for regulated environments and defensible security posture.
• Proficiency scripting in Python, Go, or similar language.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build ground and site network infrastructure across environments.
• Design, deploy, and scale highly available Kubernetes clusters.
• Own the security posture of ground infrastructure and ensure compliance.
• Build infrastructure as code with Terraform/Terragrunt for repeatable environments.
• Establish observability with monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerting.
• Design and run CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Act as primary SRE for uptime, incident response, and reliability standards.
• Collaborate with security, mission ops, and program teams to translate requirements into compliant infrastructure.
• Set architectural standards and mentor engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containers

Networking

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Go

Security mindset

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

ArgoCD

Mimir

Job description

Apex Technology, Inc. is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate the ground and site network infrastructure connecting Apex facilities and mission operations.

This hands-on role involves architecting a highly available Kubernetes platform and defining the security posture that keeps it compliant. You will own observability, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, partnering with security, mission operations, and program teams to deliver compliant and operable