Senior Cloud Systems Engineer

Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Onsite | Denver, CO - Space Operations & Mission Software

A pioneering aerospace company developing next-generation lunar mobility and robotic systems is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer to support mission-critical ground software infrastructure that powers future space exploration programs and to contribute to the company's mission in a dynamic startup environment.

The main responsibilities of this role include managing project deployments in production, ensuring high availability and uptime, executing reliable releases, and driving operational excellence through comprehensive monitoring, metrics, and infrastructure management. This project is a next-generation Command and Control (C2) platform—the ground software that enables and empowers all the company's missions, including the Lunar vehicle program. As mission-agnostic software used by all operators in mission control, project reliability and uptime are critical to mission success.

This role will focus on managing highly available cloud and Kubernetes environments for a cutting-edge command and control platform supporting lunar vehicle operations and mission control activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and manage project production releases and deployment pipelines using GitOps practices
• Drive operational excellence initiatives including metrics collection, log aggregation, uptime monitoring, KPI tracking, and SIM Integration
• Maintain and achieve 99.99% (four nines) to 99.999% (five nines) uptime SLAs
• Design, develop, and maintain Helm charts and related infrastructure components Implement and manage progressive deployment strategies including canary deployments and blue-green deployments
• Oversee critical Kubernetes infrastructure including volume management, DNS configuration, load balancer provisioning, and secret monitoring/management
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes deployments and related AWS services
• Implement and maintain observability stack using OpenTelemetry for comprehensive monitoring and alerting
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and enforce operational best practices and reliability standards

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of production DevOps/SRE experience with demonstrable track record of maintaining high-availability systems
• Kubernetes administration experience with elevated cluster access in production environments
• Strong proficiency writing and maintaining Helm charts for complex, multi-component applications
• Hands-on experience implementing canary deployments, blue-green deployments, and other progressive delivery patterns
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure management: persistent volumes, DNS/networking, load balancers, and secrets management
• Production experience with GitOps workflows and Flux CD
• Proven track record maintaining 99.99%+ uptime in production environments
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills when working with production systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AWS cloud services, particularly EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), Secrets Manager, VPC networking, IAM, and AWS Load Balancers
• Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node autoscaling and cluster optimization
• Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation and observability platforms
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CDK)
• Experience implementing SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation level and base salary are competitively structured and thoughtfully determined based on factors such as relevant skills, experience, education, and the scope of the role.

• Comprehensive health coverage: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with 70% of premiums covered by the employer
• Paid time off: Three (3) weeks per year of vacation
• Retirement plan: Up to 4% employer match on 401(k) contributions
• Paid holidays: 11 company-recognized holidays
• Parental leave
• Educational reimbursement opportunities to support company objectives, continued learning, and career development

If you are interested, then please apply here or get in touch directly with Oksana @ EVONA View email address on click.appcast.io

I look forward to hearing from you! ☺