Site Reliability/Platform Engineer / DC or CO / Mid-Staff Level

A rapidly growing venture-backed aerospace and national security technology company is hiring a full-time Site Reliability Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer to support secure, mission-critical infrastructure for government-facing space and defense programs. This hybrid role can sit in either the Washington, DC or Denver, CO area and is ideal for an engineer with strong experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Linux, CI/CD, and cloud security. The team is building and scaling a modern platform used to support highly sensitive operational environments, and they’re looking for someone who can help ensure the infrastructure is reliable, secure, and built for long-term mission success.

For the right person, this offers a chance to deepen exposure to defense-tech infrastructure, work on meaningful systems, and have visible ownership over a platform that is actively scaling.

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or DevSecOps
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production
• Experience operating infrastructure in AWS and on-prem
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Active TS clearance or higher highly preferred
• Experience with AWS GovCloud or other government cloud environments
  
  

What You Will Be Doing

• Build, automate, deploy, and support secure infrastructure for mission-critical government workloads
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, observability, and deployment consistency across production environments
• Support Kubernetes-based services and containerized applications running in AWS and future hybrid environments
• Help evolve infrastructure patterns from a primarily cloud-based environment toward more controlled / on-prem deployment models
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and operational automation
• Partner with engineering and security teams to improve system hardening, reduce operational toil, and support secure production deployments
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and improve platform resilience over time
  
  

Daily Responsibilities

• 75% Hands On
• 0% Management Duties
• 25% Team Collaboration
  
  

The Offer

• Bonus and equity eligible
  
  

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Equity
  
  

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted By: Sarah Unowsky