The Digital Modernization Sector has an exciting career opportunity for an Kubernetes Engineer Colorado Springs, CO to support the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), Operational Command and Control Acquisition Delta, known as Kobayashi Maru. This role is instrumental in the development and deployment of mission critical software for space defense, space domain awareness, and enabling data services. This role Primary Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem environments. Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines. Develop and manage Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management. Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, networking, and persistent storage solutions. Implement Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and container runtime security. Optimize performance and reliability of containerized applications in distributed systems. Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to enhance DevOps workflows and cloud-native application delivery. Integrate Kubernetes with service meshes, logging, and observability tools such as Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. Participate in system upgrades, disaster recovery planning, and compliance initiatives such as NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization. Basic Qualifications: Requires BS and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree. Minimum 5+ years of experience working with Kubernetes in production environments. Must have a DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) to start and maintain. Must have Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), and Azure Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or equivalent cloud certifications. Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their Kubernetes services (EKS, AKS, GKE). Proficiency in containerization technologies like Docker and container runtime management. Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation). Experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Tekton. Deep knowledge of Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, Istio, or Linkerd) and storage solutions (Ceph, Portworx, Longhorn). Expertise in monitoring and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry. Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Golang for automation. Familiarity with Kubernetes security best practices, including Pod Security Standards, RBAC, and image scanning tools (Trivy, Aqua, or Falco). Experience with GitOps methodologies (ArgoCD, FluxCD) Knowledge of serverless computing and Kubernetes-based event-driven architectures Familiarity with service meshes and API gateways (Istio, Envoy, Traefik) Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform security tools and configurations. Proficiency in cloud security frameworks such as CSA CCM (Cloud Controls Matrix), FedRAMP, or similar. Experience embedding security in CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions. Experience with automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, or Bash). Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of hybrid cloud networking (e.g., VPNs, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect). Experience with DevSecOps pipelines and integration Experience working in agile development and DevOps-driven environments. US Citizen and Possession of a current Active DoD TS/SCI Clearance Preferred Qualifications Master’s degree in computer science Multi-Cluster & Hybrid Deployments – Experience managing federated or multi-cluster Kubernetes environments across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. Custom Kubernetes Operators – Developing and maintaining Kubernetes Operators using the Operator SDK (Go, Python, or Ansible). Cluster API (CAPI) Expertise – Experience with Cluster API for managing Kubernetes lifecycle across cloud providers. Advanced Scheduling & Tuning – Custom scheduling, affinity/anti-affinity rules, and performance optimization for workloads. Kubernetes Hardening – Deep knowledge of CIS benchmarks, PodSecurityPolicies (PSP), and Kyverno or Open Policy Agent (OPA). Original Posting: March 31, 2025 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenue of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information visit www.Leidos.com. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here. Securing Your Data Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to [email protected]. Commitment and Diversity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Docker, DevOps, Cloud, API, Junior, Golang and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $80,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\n6314 Remote/Teleworker US

\nAre you ready to power the World's connections?\n\n\nIf you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply.  Nobody checks every box - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.\n\n\nAbout the role:\n\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer at Kong, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and optimizing our cutting-edge API gateway and cloud-native connectivity solutions. You’ll work on high-performance, scalable software that empowers organizations to manage APIs and microservices efficiently across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.\n\n\nAt Kong, we are revolutionizing API connectivity with open-source and enterprise-grade solutions that power some of the world’s most demanding applications. The team’s core products, Kong Gateway Operator and Kong Ingress Controller, enable seamless, secure, and intelligent service connectivity for modern architectures, including Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and service mesh deployments. If you're passionate about distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and high-performance APIs, we’d love to hear from you!\n\n\n\nWhat You'll be doing: \n* Designing, developing, and maintaining Kong’s Gateway Operator and Ingress Controller to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.\n* Contributing to open-source projects and engaging with the community to drive innovation in API connectivity.\n* Collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, DevOps) to build new features and enhance existing functionality.\n* Writing clean, efficient, and well-tested code in Golang while ensuring high code quality through automated testing and peer reviews.\n* Optimizing performance for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.\n* Building and maintaining integrations with Kubernetes and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).\n* Participating in technical design discussions, architecting solutions, and contributing to technical roadmaps.\n* Troubleshooting complex system issues and ensuring high availability and resilience.\n* Mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.\n* Staying up to date with emerging trends in cloud computing, Kubernetes, and service meshes.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll bring:\n* 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.\n* Proficiency in Golang (or strong experience in another modern programming language with the ability to ramp up in Golang).\n* Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and the wider cloud-native ecosystem.\n* Experience designing and building high-performance, scalable distributed systems.\n* Familiarity with APIs, microservices, and networking (L4/L7 concepts).\n* Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and debugging techniques in cloud environments.\n* Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\n* Ability to contribute to and navigate open-source projects.\n* Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a remote-first, distributed team.\n* Excellent communication skills, with a passion for knowledge sharing and mentoring.\n* This position is open to remote candidates located in (Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden and UK).\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kong: \n\n\nKong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). As the innovation leader of cloud API technologies, Kong is on a mission to enable companies around the world to become "API-first" and securely accelerate AI adoption.  Kong helps organizations globally - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises - unleash developer productivity, build securely and accelerate to market.\n\n\n83% of web traffic today is API calls!  APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another.  Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud.  Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!  \n\n\nFor more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.\n\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Testing, Cloud, API, Senior, Junior, Golang, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nEMEA

\nWho We Are\n\n\nTonal is the smartest home gym and personal trainer. It has completely revolutionized the way people work out at home, with its sleek design and advanced A.I. technology. We’ve united a diverse team of experts and decades of research to reinvent strength training, making it more efficient, more effective and more engaging. \n\n\nWith this in mind, we want to bring that same innovative approach to the workplace. At Tonal, we continue our shift of emphasis by growing our instrumental team. We collectively weave our knowledge and creativity, as we redefine the future of fitness. We are passionate about building products that transform lives, and building teams that transform the status quo. Together, we can be our strongest.  \n\n\nOverview\n\n\nTonal is looking for a passionate backend developer to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design, and play a critical role in building the platform that powers the world’s most intelligent personal trainer. You will be given the opportunity to solve challenging problems in the development of software for a unique consumer fitness product. You are entrepreneurial, thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, and execute at an A-level. Like us, you value clean, fast, high-performing, and maintainable software.\n\n\n\nWhat You Will Do\n* Own the development of major software projects for our backend services. These services drive everything in our platform from personalized workout recommendations to dynamic media generation and distribution, and analytics based on the largest and most advanced fitness data set in the world\n* Collaborate with our tightly integrated software, hardware and content teams to continually evolve a unique, consumer-oriented fitness product \n* Work closely with product team to clarify requirements and develop designs for new features\n* Implement, test, deploy and monitor software for our cloud-based backend microservices \n* Write and review clean, secure and testable code with a focus on maintainability, scalability and performance\n* Develop and support cloud-based big data pipelines \n* Use analytics to understand product behavior and motivate data-driven decisions \n* Mentor and share your broad knowledge with more junior engineers\n\n\n\nWho You Are\n* A self-driven backend engineer, with experience owning software projects end-to-end and a desire to work in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.\n* 5+ years of software development experience\n* Track record of solving problems end-to-end with little-to-no oversight\n* Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and RESTful APIs\n* Expertise in server-side software development in Golang (or other languages, e.g. Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python)\n* Strong understanding of database design and modeling (e.g., PostgreSQL)\n* Excellent communicator with the ability to work collaboratively and cohesively in a cross-functional team\n* Experience with data-intensive applications, big data pipelines and analytics, having used tools such as Snowflake, DataBricks, Amplitude and Looker\n\n\n\nExtra Credit\n* Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, ArgoCD\n* Experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Airflow\n* Experience with Android development, Flutter, Kotlin\n* Experience with Swift/SwiftUIExperience working with remote teams\n* Experience integrating with Stripe, OneSignal\n* Interest in the fitness industry\n\n\n\n\n\nThe range of base salary for the position is between $184,000 - $199,000 USD plus equity and benefits. We take into consideration an individual’s background, experience, and location in determining their salary. This role is also eligible for health insurance, retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and other additional benefits.\n\n\nAt Tonal, we believe that the unique and varied lived experiences of our teammates contribute to our overall strength. We don’t just appreciate differences, we celebrate them, and we always seek people that represent a wide variety of backgrounds. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and designing employee experiences that contribute to your growth as much as you do to ours. If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for (even if you don’t check every single box), send us your application. We would love to hear from you!\n \nTonal is committed to meeting the diverse needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner that is consistent with the principles of independence, dignity, integration, and equality of opportunity. Should you have any accommodation requests, please reach out to us via our confidential email, [email protected]. All requests will be addressed and responded to in accordance with Tonal’s Accessibility Policy and local legislation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Cloud, Android, Golang, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $105,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco, CA