Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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⚔️ Virginia, Washington – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $135k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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BlackSky

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Logistics • Consulting • Defense

BlackSky is a real-time space-based intelligence company that provides satellite imagery and AI-enabled analytics to help governments and businesses anticipate and understand changes in global conditions. Their platform, BlackSky Spectra®, offers on-demand imagery and analysis for strategic decision-making, leveraging high-frequency monitoring satellite constellations. BlackSky's services are valuable for national security, economic analysis, and situational awareness. The company delivers insights that give customers a decisive advantage by securing foresight into changing global dynamics.

📋 Description

• Design and operate AWS infrastructure, including VPC, subnets, NLB/ALB, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, Route 53, and hybrid connectivity to on-premises, private, and air-gapped networks • Stand up and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters on EKS, Rancher (RKE2), and/or Red Hat OpenShift 4 • Perform Kubernetes upgrades, capacity planning, networking, storage, and day-2 operations • Implement and own GitOps workflows with Argo CD, including declarative cluster and application state, app-of-apps patterns, sync policies, drift detection, and progressive rollouts • Author, version, and maintain Helm charts across environments • Build repeatable delivery into disconnected environments using Zarf or equivalent packaging and mirroring tooling • Codify infrastructure and platform configuration with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize • Build and harden CI/CD pipelines from development through restricted production and BCP targets • Integrate certificate management, secrets management, container registries, storage, and observability as reusable platform building blocks • Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, incident response, and capacity/cost-management standards • Report to the Manager, Infrastructure • Perform other responsibilities as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• At least five years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE engineering, with at least 3 years running Kubernetes in production • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent experience (four years) • Strong hands-on AWS experience across networking, compute, storage, and IAM, including hybrid/on-prem connectivity patterns • Production experience operating Kubernetes in one or more enterprise distributions — Amazon EKS, Rancher/RKE2, or OpenShift 4 • Demonstrated GitOps experience with Argo CD (or Flux) as the primary deployment mechanism • Proficiency authoring and maintaining Helm charts, and a solid grasp of Kubernetes primitives (workloads, networking, RBAC, storage, CRDs/operators) • Experience with the Kubernetes Operator deployment model, deploying and managing workloads via operators and CRDs (OLM/OperatorHub) • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, ideally with Terraform • Comfort with Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, plus Python or Go) • Experience building on hardened, non-CVE / zero-known-vulnerability base images (e.g., Chainguard, Iron Bank, or distroless/minimal baselines) and supply-chain security practices • Production monitoring and observability with Prometheus and Grafana (exporters, PromQL, alerting, dashboards) • Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work independently across the full lifecycle of a platform component • U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residence, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations for ITAR compliance

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance • BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses • 15 days of PTO • 11 Company holidays • Four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date) • One day of paid volunteerism leave per year • Parental leave • 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match • Flexible Spending Accounts • Employee Stock Purchase Program • Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs • Employer matching donations • Professional development • Choice of Mac or PC • Awesome swag