Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer About Us: BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun. The BlackSky Platform team is building the premier global intelligence platform to deliver timely, relevant, and actionable information to customers. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build and operate platforms that run our customer workloads across public cloud, private data centers, and air-gapped/disconnected environments. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is equally comfortable writing Terraform against AWS, troubleshooting kubernetes deployments and packaging full application stacks for delivery and implementation in isolated network environments. As one of the team, you will be engaged in all aspects of our our multi-environment delivery pipelines from development through production and business continuity (BCP) environments. You will directly be involved in the successful automated deployment of solutions that meet our customers’ business objectives. Your contribution matters! The ideal candidate brings deep Kubernetes and GitOps operational experience implementing in public, private and isolated environments. This position reports to the Manager, Infrastructure and while we have offices in Herndon, VA and Seattle, WA, we are open to remote candidates in certain states. Responsibilities: Design and operate AWS infrastructure (VPC, subnets, NLB/ALB, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, Route 53) and the hybrid connectivity that ties cloud to on-premises and private/air-gapped networks. Stand up and run production-grade Kubernetes clusters on EKS, Rancher (RKE2) and/or Red Hat OpenShift 4, including upgrades, capacity planning, networking, storage, and day-2 operations.