Kubernetes Engineer (Hybrid)

Auria is looking for a full-time Kubernetes Engineer (Hybrid role) to join our team in El Segundo, CA, or Colorado Springs, CO!

Supports the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Operational Command, and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. Kobayashi Maru is responsible for continuously delivering impactful software for space operations. The program office’s mission includes the development and deployment of software for space defense, space domain awareness, and enabling data services.

You will become part of Kobayashi Maru’s Information Technology and Enterprise Services team responsible for leveraging Kubernetes technology to deliver, install, upgrade, patch and maintain highly reliable and resilient solutions for deploying and hosting current and future tools and services needed to develop, test, secure, and ship software applications to production. The Information Technology and Enterprise Services team operates within an Agile framework including daily stand up, welcomes feedback often, sprint/iteration planning, duration planning, retrospectives, executing from the product backlog and roadmap, meeting performance metrics, and reporting on progress and blockers. The Information Technology and Enterprise Services team is completely customer-focused and strives to exceed service level agreements, specifications, and parameters.

Salary Range: $130,000 - $145,000

Responsibilities:

• Secure and configure containerized services orchestrated with Kubernetes and its underlying environment
• Tune Kubernetes performance and identify problems by using service and traffic metrics by establishing monitoring and alerting dashboards
• Lead the lifecycle management of all containerized services used in the development of Kobayashi Maru software
• Lead troubleshooting containerized services and publish root cause analysis and postmortems with the larger portfolio
• Establish service level objectives and other site reliability engineering related metrics
• Manage the north-south and east-west network traffic to ensure all container-based critical services are maintained
• Ensure the Kubernetes environment is running as it should, properly patched and configured, has sufficient resources to run the required applications, and can scale as needed without being overprovisioned
• With “everything as code” mentality, design, secure, deploy, and manage the Kubernetes environment required to support 14 software product teams and thousands of users across the test, IL4 development, IL6 staging/production, and higher classification level staging and production environments

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a Kubernetes Engineer, successfully designing and building distributed systems for mid to large enterprises, including two years of SRE experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM, or IT from an accredited institution
• Possession of a current Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) certification, or equivalent
• US Citizen and possession of a current Secret Clearance
• Your resume must demonstrate experience:
• Delivering container orchestration solutions to leverage the full value of container technology
• Designing, building, and implementing could-native architectures with Kubernetes
• Maintaining, configuring, and monitoring containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in the development, test, and production environment
• Designing containerized solutions for relational/non-relational databases, data auditing, caching, and performance
• Implementing observability solutions, key metrics to monitor, and establishing monitoring foundation
• Troubleshooting and conducting root cause analysis to address routine to moderately complex issues with accuracy and performance
• Deploying and managing micro-services using container orchestration platforms
• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language, with configuration management tools, service registry and discovery tools, infrastructure orchestration tools, and automated imaging tools
• Using and optimizing monitoring and trending systems, log aggregation systems, and their agents
• Proficiently using one or more of the following tools: Argo CD, cert-manager, Ingress, Keycloak, MinIO, MongoDB, Pinniped, Prometheus, Grafana, VMWare Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Sealed Secrets, Tanzu Postgres and Operator, Vault, Velero/Restic, Harbor, Kustomize, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab and Helm

About Auria

Auria is a provider of solutions and software in support of complex Space, National Security, and Cyber missions of federal, international, and commercial customers. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO and with operations in Boulder, CO, Washington, DC, Huntsville, AL, Albuquerque, NM, Ogden, UT, and San Diego, CA, our success is built on the excellence of diverse teams advancing innovative systems and operational software to strengthen our customers’ superiority in Space. With a distinguished track record and a spirit of relentless pursuit, we set the pace for progress and execute every mission with the utmost precision.

When you join Auria as a full-time employee, you get many benefits which include:

• Generous PTO package with yearly tenure increases
• Flex time policy providing you the flexibility needed
• 11 Company-Paid Holidays per year
• Up to 4% match on 401(k) employee contributions, employer and employee contributions immediately vested
• Tuition and Certification Fee Assistance
• Low-cost medical plans that include company-sponsored HSA
• No-cost life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• And much more!

Auria is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.