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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Astranis

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About the role

  • Reliability is the cornerstone of a successful space mission

  • As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll design infrastructure that’s as mission-critical as the satellites it supports: platforms built to run 24/7 without compromise

  • Your infrastructure will be the foundation for applications Mission Operators use to safely command our satellites and maintain situational awareness

  • Your expertise will guide our company strategy in leveraging the cloud for hosting critical applications and improving developer productivity

  • This role supports both commercial and U.S. Government programs

  • Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms that host mission-critical applications

  • Harden infrastructure for resilience and build self-healing systems with minimal downtime

  • Develop observability pipelines that give insight into cluster health and cost

  • Partner with teams across the engineering org to ensure their application requirements and SLAs are met

  • Champion best practices in software reliability, security, and scalability across the engineering org

Benefits

  • An equity stake in the company
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Healthy, delicious, free lunch catered in every day
  • Complementary OneMedical membership
  • Great office chairs, stand-up desks, and a machine shop
  • Reimbursement to spend on commuting from outside SF
  • Generous, fully-paid parental leave

Qualifications

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
  • Bachelor of Science in a related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Information Technology)
  • Experience deploying and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters
  • Proficiency with Python or other scripting language
  • 3+ years experience in Infrastructure and/or Site Reliability engineering
  • Understanding of cloud spend optimization and best practices for managing cost
  • Experience with on prem or baremetal Kubernetes management
  • Experience with GitOps tools (e.g. FluxCD, ArgoCD)
  • Familiarity with observability stacks and implementing monitoring solutions (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Experience with secrets management (e.g. Vault, External Secrets)
  • Experience with service meshes (e.g. Istio, Nginx)

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