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

\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
\n\n#Location\nRemote

\nABOUT EIGENLABS\n\nEigenLabs provides cryptoeconomic security as a service for blockchain projects. Our platform provides programmatic access to the trust layer of Ethereum to make components reusable, allowing builders to rely on Ethereum for security while saving time and resources typically allocated to bootstrapping their own token. EigenLabs technologies also create technical value & efficiency for validators in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake network by enabling them to "re-stake" their assets. Re-staking allows validators to secure multiple protocols and boost rewards by providing security services to oracle networks, data availability networks and dApps running on rollups or side-chains. We’re on a mission to hyperscale ETH & dApps and increase decentralization through re-staking!\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nAt EigenLabs, our engineering teams operate within a customer-aligned team structure, where we believe in shared responsibility for DevOps among all software engineers. As an Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of critical infrastructure components while fostering a culture of collaboration and best practices adoption within your team, and across the company. \n\nYou will work closely with frontend and backend software engineers, leveraging your expertise to empower the entire team to collectively maintain, operate, and enhance infrastructure resources effectively. By championing leading practices, automation, and efficient workflows, you will ensure that our customer-aligned teams can deliver high-quality software solutions with speed, security, and reliability.\n\nYour leadership in infrastructure design, implementation, and reliability engineering will directly contribute to EigenLabs' commitment to blockchain innovation and advancing economic freedom through technology. If you’re passionate about shaping the future of blockchain, and making a meaningful impact on the world, we look forward to hearing from you!\n\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\n\n\n* You will lead the design and implementation of foundational infrastructure components used by every engineering team in production. This includes dynamic configuration, DNS and networking setup, secrets management, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, including platforms such as EKS).\n\n* Demonstrate leadership by taking the initiative to address challenges and drive continuous improvement. Foster a culture of best practices adoption and automation within your team. Share your expertise to empower frontend and backend engineers to efficiently maintain, operate, and enhance infrastructure resources.\n\n* Utilize your proficiency in cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or similar to optimize our infrastructure for scalability and performance.\n\n* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement improvements in infrastructure, monitoring, and incident response.\n\n* Make significant contributions to operational excellence initiatives, ensuring the highest level of efficiency and reliability in our infrastructure. Administer network capabilities and support CI/CD pipelines. Monitor infrastructure using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. \n\n* Implement and maintain security best practices across all aspects of our infrastructure, including access controls, encryption, and network security\n\n* Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the continued reliability and uptime of our services\n\n* Design, implement and champion Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) principles to automate software development and deployment processes.\n\n* Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our infrastructure, aligning it with our product and technical goals.\n\n* Build tools for blockchain node operators that make it easy to launch and operate different types of validator environments\n\n* Proactively contribute to discussions about technical issues, sprint and roadmap planning, and improving engineering processes\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BRING\n\n\n* 5+ years of direct experience in infrastructure, SRE or back-end engineering with public cloud and Linux-based systems.\n\n* Strong design and implementation experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred)\n\n* Knowledge of authentication, authorisation and accounting (IAM, Federation, RBAC, service accounts) for public cloud and kubernetes\n\n* Containerization and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with container hardening and implementation within Kubernetes.\n\n* Proficiency in at least one back-end development language such as Python, Go, or C++\n\n* Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, etc., enabling efficient automation and configuration management.\n\n* Demonstrated experience in production environments with proactive monitoring, logging, alerting,  and profiling with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (or alternative log analysis platforms) to ensure robust performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.\n\n* Experience developing and maintaining CI systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI) to facilitate automation of the SDLC. Working knowledge of CD tooling (e.g., AWS Code Pipelines, ArgoCD, Flux), and an understanding of how GitOps deployment models operate\n\n* 3+ years experience with one or more programming languages, preferably Go or Python.\n\n* Knowledge of security best practices, encompassing encryption methods, key management, access control mechanisms, and network security protocols that contribute to the overall security posture of our infrastructure. \n\n* Strong understanding of core Internet protocols: DNS, TCP/SSL, HTTP, gRPC, etc.\n\n* Proven ability to take ownership of projects and work independently. Proficiency in effectively communicating project statuses and diligently documenting activities. Expertise in maintaining meticulous attention to detail across diverse, blockchain-centric environments.\n\n* Track record of successfully delivering complex and high-scale infrastructure\n\n\n\n\nNICE TO HAVES\n\n\n* Contribution to open source projects and/or developing open source tools is advantage\n\n* Data visualization, and observability tooling experience\n\n* Expertise in scaling and migrating systems in dynamic environments, with a strong understanding of incident management processes.\n\n* Experience in information security, including vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and implementing and automating security controls, with expertise in security protocols (TLS, SSL, SSH) and frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO 27001). Experience responding to security audits. \n\n* Service discovery and service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd.\n\n* Good understanding of blockchain fundamentals, including wallets, smart contracts, protocol design\n\n* Experience with Liquid Staking or Ethereum Node Operations platforms\n\n\n\n\n \n\nIn compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $225,000 - $250,000 is the annual base salary. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, EigenLabs provides various employee benefits, including: \n\n\n* Employer-covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plans\n\n* 401k \n\n* Unlimited Paid Time Off\n\n* 12 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave \n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Ethereum, Docker, Accounting, DevOps, Cloud, Node, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $57,500 — $110,000/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\nSeattle, Washington, United States