Site Reliability Engineer — Automation & Observability

York Space Systems; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

York Space Systems is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Observability and Reliability team. You will support mission critical integration, testing, and production environments across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and automated resilience.

You will own monitoring pipelines, backup processes, and the lifecycle of system deployment, health, and security, collaborating with engineering and operations teams in a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience managing and administering Linux systems in production.
• Proven expertise with observability platforms, monitoring tools, and logging/metric pipelines.
• Ability to diagnose complex system issues and collaborate cross‑functionally.
• Willingness to work full‑time in Greenwood Village, CO.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance on‑prem observability systems and issue detection.
• Own backup and data‑integrity infrastructure with tested recovery processes.
• Guarantee high availability across 100+ Linux systems.
• Monitor on‑prem production environments for system integration and testing.
• Monitor cloud‑based test and sandbox environments for data visualization and trainings.
• Manage simulation server infrastructure for stable, high‑performing executions.
• Design and maintain automation for fault detection, resilience, and self‑healing.
• Provision and validate new Linux machines for on‑prem deployment.
• Support production test operations on manufacturing floors and offline sites.
• Troubleshoot IP addressing, DNS, and Netplan issues in Linux networks.
• Document, triage, and report daily production issues.

Skills

Linux systems

Observability

Monitoring tools

Automation

Scripting

Cloud concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Linux

Python

Bash

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab CI

Git

Grafana

Prometheus

Influx

Job description

York Space Systems is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Observability and Reliability team. You will support mission critical integration, testing, and production environments across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, data integrity, and automated resilience.

You will own monitoring pipelines, backup processes, and the lifecycle of system deployment, health, and security, collaborating with engineering and operations teams in a fast‑paced environment.