Site Reliability Engineer, Strategic Defense
Core
Provisioning bare metal, operating self-managed Kubernetes clusters, and debugging infrastructure failures for a software-defined command and control system in air-gapped, classified networks.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Defense Infrastructure)
Builds
Hardened nodes, self-managed clusters, and automated provisioning pipelines for military defense systems.
Domain
Defense technology / Cybersecurity / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Linux kernel debugging, Kubernetes internals (CNI, kube-proxy, scheduling), Python scripting, Bash scripting, Network troubleshooting (TCP/UDP, routing, firewalls), Bare metal provisioning, Infrastructure as Code
Preferred skills
Air-gapped network operations, DIL (disconnected/intermittent/limited) system design, Terraform, Ansible, Go/Rust/C++ debugging, Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana)
Responsibilities
Rack and provision hardware from bare metal to production cluster, Operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters on-prem and at the edge, Debug failures across Linux kernel, network, and Kubernetes layers, Write automation tooling for fleet management, Deploy and support systems at customer sites
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
