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
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\nAirDNA began with a big dream in a balmy California garage in 2015. Since then, the technology startup has grown into the leading provider of data and business intelligence for the billion-dollar travel and vacation rental industry—with offices in Denver and Barcelona. \n\n\nOur self-serve platform eliminates guesswork and equips Airbnb hosts with smart and competitive insights needed to succeed in the ever-evolving short-term rental landscape. \n\n\nWe also arm enterprise clients with customized reports and in-depth dashboards to ensure they can scale and invest strategically. These customers include hundreds of top financial institutions, real estate companies, vacation rental managers, and destination marketing organizations around the world. \n\n\nWe track the daily performance of over 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo properties across 120,000 global markets. We also collect data from over a million partner properties. This marriage of scraped and source data, enhanced by our proprietary algorithms, makes our solutions the most accurate and comprehensive in the world. \n\n\nWe’re firm believers that data isn’t the destination; it’s the starting point. The launchpad. The bedrock for any future-forward business.\n\n\nThe Role: \n Come join our Platform team and help drive our growth by designing, maintaining, and improving our platform and processes. The ideal person for this role is driven to design robust, scalable, secure infrastructure, cares about the details, and enjoys helping both individual engineers and their teams work more effectively.\n\n\n\nHere's what you'll get to do: \n* Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and telemetry solutions for proactive performance and reliability management (experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).\n* Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance platform capabilities, especially around containers, databases, and cloud-native architectures.\n* Ensure security, compliance, and cost optimization in all platform solutions, utilizing tools like IAM, GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub.\n* Design, implement, and manage scalable infrastructure solutions using AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, etc.).\n* Manage, scale, and optimize multiple databases (PostgresQL + Druid) to ensure performance, availability, and redundancy.\n* Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline release processes and integrate best practices for infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).\n* Work closely with stakeholders to identify infrastructure needs and lead initiatives to scale the platform in alignment with business goals.\n* Drive continuous improvement in the platform’s architecture and processes, optimizing for performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform development with product goals and strategies.\n* Mentor and guide junior team members, providing technical leadership and driving best practices across the platform team.\n\n\n\nHere's what you'll need to be successful: \n* Strong familiarity with Amazon Web Services, multi-account experience preferred.\n* Expertise using Docker and Kubernetes.\n* Experience with developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment and infrastructure provisioning.\n* Able to diagnose and troubleshoot problems in a distributed microservice environment.\n* Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking.\n* Expertise with Linux (prefer Ubuntu, Alpine, and/or Amazon Linux).\n* Understanding of DevOps practices.\n* Demonstrated experience in managing or leading platform teams, with the ability to grow the team and develop talent within.\n\n\n\nHere's what would be nice to have:\n* Gitlab pipelines\n* ArgoCD\n* Linkerd, Istio or other service mesh\n* ELK stack or similar logging platforms\n* Ansible or other configuration management tools\n* Cloudformation or other IaC tools\n* JSON/YAML\n* OpenVPN\n* Apache Airflow\n* Databases (postgres and Druid preferred)\n* Cloudflare\n* Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, StatusPage\n* Programming experience: shell scripting, Python, Golang preferred\n* Experience with performance optimization of distributed microservices\n\n\n\nHere's what you can expect from us: \n* Competitive cash compensation and benefits, the salary range for this position is $150,000 - $180,000 per year. \n\nColorado Salary Statement: The salary range displayed in specifically for those potential hired who will work or reside in the state of Colorado if selected for this role. Any offered salary is determined based on internal equity, internal salary ranges, market data/ranges, applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications. \nBenefits include:\n*  Medical, dental, and vision packages to meet your needs\n* Unlimited vacation policy; take time when you need it \n* Eligible for Company’s annual discretionary bonus program\n* 401K with employer match up to 4%\n* Continuing education stipend\n* 16 weeks of paid parental leave\n* New MacBooks for employees\n\n\nOffice Perks for Denver Based Employees:\n* Commuter/RTD benefit\n* Quarterly team outings\n* In-office lunch Tuesday - Thursday\n* We have a great office located just a few blocks away from Union Station in the heart of Denver’s historic LoDo neighborhood–high ceilings, exposed brick, a fully stocked kitchen (snacks, espresso, etc.), and plenty of meeting rooms and brainstorming nooks\n* Pet-friendly!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAirDNA seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support the mission, vision and values of the company and those who respect and promote excellence through diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, marital, familial or parental status, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected classification. The company complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits unlawful harassment based on any of the aforementioned protected classes at every location in which the company operates. This applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment including but not limited to: hiring, assessments, probation, placement, benefits, promotion, demotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, training and development, social and recreational programs, education assistance and retirement. \n\n\nWe are committed to making our application process and workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. Upon request, AirDNA will reasonably accommodate applicants so they can participate in the application process unless doing so would create an undue hardship to AirDNA or a threat to these individuals, others in the workplace or the company as a whole. To request accommodation, please email [email protected]. Please allow for 24 hours to process your request. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Amazon, Docker, DevOps, Education, Senior, Marketing, Golang and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $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
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## OUTER'S MISSION\nOuter is a venture-backed startup based in Santa Monica, California on a mission to get people outside and inspire healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives by creating innovative outdoor furniture.\nIn addition to being a high growth ecommerce brand, Outer is working to revolutionize retail with its Neighborhood Showroom platform. Just like how Airbnb turns people’s homes into hotel rooms, Neighborhood Showroom (NBS) turns customer's backyard’s into retail showrooms. This allows for people interested in buying products to see/touch/feel products in a real world setting. It also allows for the showroom host to make extra cash on a per visit basis.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you are expected to step into the software stack at any level and make an impact.\n## Types of problems you will tackle\n- How can we build a scalable matching system that connects Neighborhood Showroom guest with the best host based on availability, location, and other factors\n- How can we best facilitate guest/host communications\n- How do we build an operations infrastructure (inventory management, container management, warehouse management, etc) that will maintain 5 day delivery times anywhere in the US\n- How do we enable a point of sale experience for our customers and showroom hosts\n- How can we optimize the application process to onboard hosts\n- What tools can we build to help hosts onboard other hosts\n- How can we go from no showroom presence in a market to fully servicing that market in a matter of months\n## Minimum Qualifications\n- Love for the art / craft of writing code\n- Proven ability to ship high quality code in ambiguous situations\n- 5+ years experience in the fields of computer science or software engineering\n-World class written communication skills\n- Experience programming production applications in at least one of the following languages: Javascript, Golang\n- Experience in the following frameworks/runtimes: React, NodeJS\n- Experience using relational and non relational databases\n- Passion for building products driven by data\n- Ability to self motivate and problem solve\n- Must understand the value in writing tests\n- Ability to work in a remote team effectively\n## Preferred Qualifications\n- Experience with building or participating in marketplaces (Uber, Airbnb, financial markets)\n- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a technical field\n- Interest in building geographic marketplaces\n- Ability to creatively frame and solve problems\n- Experience building and maintaining devops infrastructure\n## About Outer\nOuter started by creating the perfect outdoor sofa: beautiful, durable, comfortable, and innovative. We also invented a new model for retail because we believe that the furniture buying experience can be much better than stale, traditional showrooms with four walls, fluorescent lighting, and pushy salespeople. Our Neighborhood Showroom platform that turns our customers' backyards into our physical showrooms where our customers can see, touch and feel our products in a real backyard alongside a real customer (think: Airbnb meets retail). Our Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer was the former Head Furniture Designer at Pottery Barn, and our founding team brings decades of experience from Casper, IDEO, Nike, Thrive Market, Match.com, and Riot Games. Outer provides a robust total rewards package, including competitive compensation packages, medical & wellness plans, 401(k) contributions, life insurance and more. \n\nPlease mention the words **VIBRANT WEB NOTICE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $120,000 — $180,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

Mothership is looking for you if you identify as a senior backend engineer with at least 6 years of experience behind you. You will have a challenge to design and implement a cryptocurrency exchange and it's sub-systems to handle dozens of thousands operations a second, make it scalable and reliable. As a senior engineer you will design micro-services and APIs, apply the best development practices with the high requirements for security, performance and reliability.\n\nYou should be able to use a modern technology stack and follow best design, coding and devops practices. You have strong skills, but are technology agnostic and can work with any tool to solve a problem. You think before you do and can articulate your decisions to teammates, provide specification and delivery roadmap. If you believe this sounds like you, then we'd love to welcome you to the Mothership Engineering team. \n\nPlease mention the words **CASE FIRST ABILITY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Crypto, Node, Senior, Golang, Backend, Web3, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n