# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Hiring organization: [BlackSky](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/blacksky)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9f3e038a-cd90-49a1-855b-8e969376470d

Listed on BlackSky's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Herndon, VA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 135000 – 150000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves designing and operating cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms across public cloud, private data centers, and air-gapped environments to support BlackSky's satellite intelligence delivery. It suits experienced infrastructure or platform engineers who are comfortable with AWS, multiple Kubernetes distributions, and GitOps practices in complex, regulated environments.

_Our summary, not BlackSky's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon EKS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Argo CD, Bash (Scripting), Elasticsearch, GitOps, Go, Grafana, HashiCorp Vault, Helm, Istio, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Linux, OpenShift, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Python, Terraform

## Required

- At least 5 years infrastructure, platform, DevOps or SRE engineering experience
- At least 3 years running Kubernetes in production
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience
- Strong hands-on AWS experience across networking, compute, storage and IAM
- Production experience with EKS, Rancher/RKE2 or OpenShift
- GitOps experience with Argo CD or Flux
- Ability to author and maintain Helm charts
- Strong Terraform infrastructure-as-code skills
- Linux systems administration and scripting proficiency
- Experience with hardened base images and supply-chain security
- Production monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
- Clear communication and ability to work independently
- U.S. citizen or eligible for ITAR authorization

## Nice to have

- Experience across all three Kubernetes distributions
- Kubernetes in edge or resource-constrained environments
- Air-gapped deployment experience with Zarf
- Container and image scanning tools
- Secrets management and PKI automation
- Persistent storage at scale experience
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Centralized log aggregation with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Government or compliance program experience
- Service mesh experience with Istio
- Relevant certifications

Apply on BlackSky's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/blacksky/jobs/8598751002?gh_jid=8598751002